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State v. Willoughby

Citations

  • 594 S.W.2d 388
  • 1980 Tenn. LEXIS 405

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the rules applicable for the common law writ of certioriari are also applicable to application for extraordinary appeal under Rule 10
  • holding that while an application was “procedurally proper” due to an issue not having been “heretofore decided,” it should nevertheless be “denied on its merits” because it did not meet the requirements of State v. Johnson, 569 S.W.2d 808 (Tenn. 1978
  • '\This Court has stated that a Rule 10 extraordinary appeal will lie whenever the prerequisites for common law certiorari exist: . . . the trial court's action is without legal authority . . . .\
  • “The General Sessions Court is not a court of record.”

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Judges: Henry, Brock, Fones, Cooper, Harbison

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