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STATE EX REL. NEWSOM v. BIGGERS

911 S.W.2d 715 (1995)

STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Michael D. NEWSOM, Appellant, v. William BIGGERS, Warden of the Madison County Workhouse, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

November 20, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughie Ragan, Jackson, for Appellant.

Mary Dee Perkins, Jackson, for Amicus Curiae.

Charles W. Burson, Attorney General & Reporter, Darian B. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, James G. Woodall, District Attorney General, Alfred L. Earls, Assistant District Attorney, Jackson, for Appellee.

BIRCH, Justice.

Michael D. Newsom, the appellant, was charged with shoplifting1 upon a warrant issued by the Clerk of the Jackson City Court. Newsom pleaded guilty on December 11, 1992; and the Honorable Walter Drake, the city judge, accepted the plea. He imposed a workhouse sentence of eleven months twenty-nine days and assessed a $100 fine.

Newsom challenges the validity of his sentence on the ground that it was imposed by a...

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