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PRUETT v. STATE

501 S.W.2d 807 (1973)

Charles Edward PRUETT v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

November 19, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Allan Edgar, Raymond R. Murphy, Jr., Chattanooga, for plaintiff in error.

David M. Pack, Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee, William C. Koch, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Edward E. Davis, Dist. Atty. Gen., Gary Gerbitz and David Rotroff, Asst. Dist. Attys. Gen., Chattanooga, for the State.

OPINION

McCANLESS, Justice.

The defendant, Charles Edward Pruett, was convicted of burglary in a state court but alleges in a post-conviction petition that an identical charge based on the same transaction had already been heard and dismissed in the city court. The defense of double jeopardy was not argued, however, because the rule in Waller v. Florida, 397 U.S. 387, 90 S.Ct. 1184, 25 L.Ed.2d 435 [1970], was not applicable...

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