Oliphant v. State

OPINION

TIPTON, Judge.

The petitioner, James Robert Oliphant, appeals as of right from the denial of his post-conviction petitions by the Criminal Court of Washington County. He is serving a life sentence as an habitual criminal following his 1986 conviction for burglary of an automobile. That conviction was affirmed on direct appeal in State v. Oliphant, No. 228, Washington Co., 1987 WL 18383 (Tenn.Crim.App., Knoxville, Oct. 14, 1987) and permission to appeal was denied by the Tennessee Supreme Court on December 28, 1987.

The various petitions seek to void the 1986 conviction and previous…