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SMITH v. THOMPSON

584 S.W.2d 253 (1979)

Fred SMITH, Appellant, v. Vinson THOMPSON, Warden, Appellee. Vinson THOMPSON, Warden, and Tennessee Department of Correction, Appellants, v. Joseph W. McKENNA, Appellee. Vinson THOMPSON, Warden, Jim Dickman, Warden, and Lamar Alexander, Governor, Appellants, v. Roland HARRIS, Jr., Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Certiorari Denied May 29, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Pack, James W. Price, Jr., Nashville, for appellant in No. 532.

Thomas Wardlaw Steele, Nashville, for amicus curiae, John J. Hooker, Jr.

Edward M. Yarbrough, Nashville, for appellee in No. 534.

Thomas H. Shriver, Dist. Atty. Gen., William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., C. Hayes Cooney, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert A. Grunow, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellants.

Lionel R. Barrett, Jr., William P. Redick, Jr., Nashville, for appellee in No. 536.

Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court May 29, 1979.

OPINION

WILLIAM S. RUSSELL, Presiding Judge.

These three consolidated cases each present the question of the legal effect of sentence commutations signed by then Governor Ray Blanton two days before he left office. Each of the convicts involved in these three cases sought release from the penitentiary by prosecuting petitions for the writ of habeas corpus. After full hearings, McKenna and Harris were...

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