Harris v. Witt

COOPER, Chief Justice.

OPINION

This is an appeal from an order entered in the Circuit Court of McMinn County dismissing the complaint filed on April 3, 1976, by Eugene Harris, now confined in the state penitentiary at Petros, Tennessee, against Judge James C. Witt.

In the complaint Mr. Harris sought damages allegedly resulting from the dismissal on March 15, 1975, of a post conviction petition by Judge Witt. Mr. Harris alleged that the post conviction petition contained sufficient grounds for relief, and that Judge Witt was in error in dismissing the petition on the ground appellant was serving…