State Ex Rel. Lewis v. State

OPINION

JOHN A. MITCHELL, Special Judge.

Cornelius Lewis, who will hereinafter be referred to as petitioner, was indicted by the grand jury for Davidson County on two separate indictments each charging “assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree.”

Upon the trial of one of these charges in Division I of the Criminal Court of Davidson County, the petitioner was convicted on October 31, 1963 of assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree, at which time a sentence of three (3) years to twenty-one (21) years in the State Penitentiary was imposed. The other indictment was…