# State v. Knight

> Tennessee Supreme Court · May 11, 1981 · 616 S.W.2d 593

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9652955

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Arlie KNIGHT, Defendant-Appellant
- **Court:** Tennessee Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 11, 1981
- **Citations:** 616 S.W.2d 593; 1981 Tenn. LEXIS 443
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing by Harbison
- **Judges:** Harbison, Fones, Cooper, Drowota, Brock
- **Cited by:** 135 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding the prohibition on double jeopardy did not apply where, even though counsel “cannot be said to have objected to the erroneous action of the court,” but “[h]e actively [sought] such dismissal and in no sense did he seek to preserve appellant’s right to have trial on the…

## Opinion text

ORDER ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
HARBISON, Chief Justice.
A petition for rehearing has been filed in the above case on behalf of appellant Arlie Knight. After consideration of same, the Court is of the opinion that the petition is not well taken and the same is accordingly denied at his cost.
Justice BROCK adheres to the views expressed in his original dissenting opinion filed in this cause.
FONES, COOPER and DROWOTA, JJ., concur.

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