Joe Clark Mitchell v. State of Tennessee

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE Assigned on Briefs June 17, 2003 JOE CLARK MITCHELL v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Wayne County No. 12823 Robert L. Jones, Judge No. M2002-03011-CCA-R3-CO - Filed September 30, 2003 Petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that the indictments against him were fatally defective and that this Court’s reduction of one of his convictions for aggravated rape to rape violated the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy. The trial court dismissed the petition without an…