JONES v. WILSON

Civ. A. No. 2185.

309 F.Supp. 708 (1970)

Louis JONES, Petitioner, v. Willie WILSON, Sheriff, etc., and Heiskell Winstead, Respondents.

United States District Court, E. D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

February 12, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Berry, G. P. Gaby, Greeneville, Tenn., for petitioner.

Ben K. Wexler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Greeneville, Tenn., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

Having found that the petitioner Mr. Jones was, and for seven years had been, serving a sentence of imprisonment in the custody of the warden of the Tennessee state penitentiary pursuant to a judgment of the Criminal Court of Greene County, Tennessee, whose jurisdiction to impose such judgment was not shown to have existed, this Court concluded that available corrective processes of the state of Tennessee...

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