Relief under this part shall be granted when the conviction or sentence is void or voidable because of the abridgment of any right guaranteed by the Constitution of Tennessee or the Constitution of the United States.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-30-103
Grounds for relief
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case House v. State (1995)
Most recently applied in Clark D. Frazier v. State of Tennessee (July 2016)
Acts 1995, ch. 207, § 1; T.C.A. § 40-30-203.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.