In February 1998, plaintiff-appellant, pro se, filed a suit in Hamilton County Circuit Court against the State of Tennessee averring that the four complaints that he filed in 1996 in Hamilton County Chancery Court pertaining to his sentencing in his criminal cases and the revocation of his parole were unlawfully dismissed in 1996 by the Chancellor for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. He appeals from the circuit court's order granting the state's motion to dismiss on the grounds of lack of subject matter jurisdiction, insufficiency of service of process, and failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Paul Barnett, Mountain City, Tennessee, pro se. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, Clinton J. Morgan, Assistant Attorney General, and Joe C. Crumley, Jr., District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. Petitioner Paul Barnett pled guilty to one count of Class D felony burglary and one count of Class D felony theft.
Petitioner challenges that dismissal.
The judgment of the trial court is reversed and this matter is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. Michael W. Ritter, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for the appellant Sheila Kaye Cooper. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, Peter M. Coughlan, Assistant Attorney General, James N. Ramsey, District Attorney General, and Jan Hicks, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. I standard offender to a term of eight years. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.