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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOHN WAYNE HAMBY

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 27, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jeffrey A. Vires, Crossville, Tennessee, for the appellant, John Wayne Hamby.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; William C. Lundy, Assistant Attorney General; Bryant C. Dunaway, District Attorney General; and Jessica Krebs and Randal L. Gilliam, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): SWORD

The Defendant, John Wayne Hamby, was convicted by a Cumberland County jury of rape of a child, for which he received a sentence of forty years’ incarceration at one hundred percent service. On appeal, the Defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction and that the trial court erred by imposing an excessive sentence. Because we conclude that the Defendant’s notice of appeal was untimely filed and that the interests of justice do not merit waiver of the untimeliness, we dismiss the appeal.

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