SAWYERS v. STATE


814 S.W.2d 725 (1991)

Roger Lee SAWYERS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE of Tennessee, Respondent-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

July 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Thomas, Edmund L. Carey, Jr., Nashville, for appellant.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Amy L. Tarkington and C. Anthony Daughtrey, Asst. Attys. Gen., Nashville, for appellee.


OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Justice.

In this post-conviction proceeding, we are asked to determine whether relief should be granted to a defendant who was actually a juvenile at the time of the offense, but who was not afforded a transfer hearing in juvenile court prior to his conviction in criminal court, because neither he nor the state knew that he was underage. The petitioner, Roger Lee Sawyers, was mistakenly indicted as an adult in February 1978 and, ignorant...

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