Frazier v. State

OPINION

MITCHELL, Judge.

Dewey Scott Frazier, who will be referred to as the defendant or by name, represented by court appointed counsel, has appealed a conviction under the habitual criminal statute and a sentence of life imprisonment from the Criminal Court of Sullivan County, Tennessee, Honorable John K. Byers, Judge presiding.

On June 27, 1968, the Grand Jury returned an indictment against Dewey Scott Frazier, in the first count, charging burglary in the third degree of the business house of Kingsport Hardware Company, a corporation, and attempt to break or open a vault or safe therein in…