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MAPLES v. STATE

565 S.W.2d 202 (1978)

Ben Richard MAPLES, Petitioner, v. STATE of Tennessee, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

April 24, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry K. Galyon, Sevierville, for petitioner.

Brooks McLemore, Jr., Atty. Gen., Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Al Schmutzer, Jr., Dist. Atty. Gen., Sevierville, for respondent.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

Petitioner was fined for contempt as the result of admittedly fraudulent divorce proceedings which he instituted in a chancery court and in which he gave false testimony. Subsequently he was convicted of the statutory offense of perjury for that false testimony. His principal insistence on appeal is that the criminal prosecution was barred on principles of double jeopardy. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction....

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