USSERY v. AVERY


432 S.W.2d 656 (1968)

Walter William USSERY, Appellant, v. Harry S. AVERY and C. Murray Henderson, Wardens, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Nashville, Tennessee, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 11, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Runyon, Clarksville, for appellant.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Robert H. Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, and Noel R. Bagwell, Clarksville, prosecuted the case for the State in the trial court.


OPINION

HUMPHREYS, Justice.

On August 26, 1965, Walter William Ussery pleaded guilty to an indictment in case No. 11407, charging him with armed robbery, and was sentenced to serve ten years in the penitentiary. The same day, he pleaded guilty to an indictment in case No. 11406, charging him with a second offense of armed robbery, and was sentenced to serve ten years in the state penitentiary; the sentence in...

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