White v. State

OPINION

TATUM, Judge.

This is an appeal by the appellant, John E. White, from a judgment denying habeas corpus relief. In the petition for habeas corpus, the appellant challenged the validity of the Governor’s revocation of a previously granted executive commutation of his penitentiary sentence. We agree with the trial judge that the revocation was valid.

On May 3, 1971, in Davidson County, the appellant was convicted of first-degree murder and received a sentence of 99 years. In January of 1979, former Governor Ray Blanton commuted the appellant’s sentence to time served, after he had served…