State Ex Rel. Reed v. Heer

Mu. Justice White

delivered the opinion’ of the Court.

This case presents for determination the legal merits of a petition for habeas corpus which has been transferred and heard before the original convicting court, pursuant to T.C.A. sec. 23-1840, Chapter 234 of the Public Acts of 1965. That statute is as follows:

The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee is hereby authorized and empowered to fix the venue and assign for trial, hearing and disposition all habeas corpus cases filed in any state court by an inmate of the several state penitentiaries wherein said inmate is seeking his…