French v. State

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Justice.

The single determinative issue for review on this appeal of a denial of post-conviction relief concerns whether a convicted defendant who flees the jurisdiction and is later recaptured waives all rights to solicit post-conviction relief.

In 1982 petitioner, George French, along with two other males, was arrested and *162charged with the armed robbery of a Nashville couple at their residence. The three co-defendants were indicted in 1983 and subsequently all three were convicted in a single jury trial. However, before the jury reported its verdict, the petitioner, George…