Dunham v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant George Dunham was convicted by a jury of theft by receiving, and the court of appeals affirmed Dunham’s conviction, in an unpublished opinion on September 9, 1992. Dunham subsequently filed a Rule 37 petition for post-conviction relief which was denied on May 17, 1993, by the trial court after it conducted an evidentiary hearing. He now brings this appeal from the trial court’s denial of post-conviction relief.

Dunham’s first point for reversal is that the trial court erred in finding it had jurisdiction to hear and decide his felony conviction, asserting that no…