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HAWKINS v. STATE

634 S.W.2d 670 (1982)

Ernest HAWKINS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Tennessee, Respondent.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Jackson.

April 19, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Dailey, Memphis, for petitioner.

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Gordon W. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for respondent.

TATUM, Judge.

The petitioner, Ernest Hawkins, has filed a petition for certiorari seeking to attack a bargained guilty plea. He entered a guilty plea to first degree murder and received a bargained sentence of life imprisonment. He seeks to set aside the guilty plea on the ground that his codefendants, who went to trial, were convicted only of involuntary manslaughter.

The State resists on the ground that the common law petition for certiorari is not available...

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