Russell v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Represented by appointed counsel, Russell and Sweeney were tried simultaneously and convicted upon four separate presentments, one charging Russell with escape from jail while confined on a felony charge, one charging Sweeney with escape from jail under like circumstances, one charging them jointly with the armed robbery of Charles Pope, and the other charging them jointly with taking and using Pope’s pick-up truck temporarily without his consent in violation of the joy-riding statute (TCA § 59-504). Each of the defendants was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary…