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STATE v. DIXON

530 S.W.2d 73 (1975)

STATE of Tennessee, Petitioner, v. Melvin James DIXON, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

November 17, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.A. Ashley, Jr., Atty. Gen., Tom Jennings, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for petitioner.

Wade M. Boswell, Jon G. Roach, Knoxville, for respondent.

COOPER, Justice.

OPINION

Melvin James Dixon was convicted of first degree murder in two cases and was sentenced to serve sixty years in each case, with the sentences to run consecutively. On finding that the indictments upon which Dixon was tried were predicated on Chapter 192 of the Public Acts of 1973, which was ruled unconstitutional by this court in State v. Hailey, 505 S.W.2d 712 (Tenn. 1974),

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