STATE v. KIVETT


308 S.W.2d 833 (1957)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. John Lee WEST, Attorney General, etc., Appellees v. J. Kyle KIVETT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Johnson, R.R. Kramer, Knoxville, Kramer, Dye, McNabb & Greenwood, Knoxville, of counsel, for appellant.

John Lee West, Atty. Gen, for 19th Judicial Circuit, Oneida, G. Howard Nevils, Tazewell, for appellees.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

That which is to be decided is (1) whether this case has become moot, and, if so, (2) whether the Court should depart from its usual practice of declining to decide a moot case.

Kivett, while County Judge of Claiborne County, was sentenced in January of 1957 to the penitentiary for a term of three years and adjudged infamous following, and because of, his conviction of embezzlement of county funds. The Attorney General for that judicial...

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