Edward Morgan MacKenna v. Harry S. Avery, Commissioner of Correction and Chairman of Board of Pardons and Paroles

Appellant pleaded guilty to a charge of automobile theft and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, on December 15, 1966. He is presently confined in the Tennessee State Penitentiary at Nashville.

Appellant filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court, in which he complained of the action of the Tennessee Parole Board on May 28, 1968, in denying him parole. He asserted that he was eligible for parole and was entitled to be paroled, but that the Parole Board did not take into account the factors provided by Tennessee…