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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs March 12, 2002 STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOHN WESLEY JOHNSON
Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Gibson County No. 15681 L. T. Lafferty, Senior Judge

No. W2001-02473-CCA-MR3-CD - Filed June 11, 2002

The appellant, John Wesley Johnson, was indicted by the Gibson County Grand Jury for one count of desecration of a venerated object, to wit: a place of burial, a class A misdemeanor. He was convicted by a jury, sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days in the county jail, placed on probation, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,574. The appellant, proceeding pro se, filed an untimely notice of appeal. This court, upon motion of the appellant, waived timely filing of the appeal; accordingly, the appeal is properly before this court. On appeal, the appellant raises the following issues: (1) "w[h]ether the trial court reviewed the record"; (2) "w[h]ether the (State) conspira[cy] used their position to withhold facts in order to receive a conviction"; (3) "w[h]ether the public officers used the court to reach their gold"; and (4) "w[h]ether the trial court erred in its review of the records and facts of law as to this case." Upon review of the record and the parties' briefs, we affirm the judgment of the trial court. Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Circuit Court is Affirmed. NORMA MCGEE OGLE, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which GARY R. WADE, P.J., and ALAN E. GLENN, J., joined. John Wesley Johnson, Trenton, Tennessee, Pro Se (on appeal), and Scott G. Kirk, Jackson, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, John Wesley Johnson. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; John H. Bledsoe, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons and Terrell G. Graves, District Attorneys General Pro Tem, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. OPINION I. Factual Background The record before this court is quite convoluted and confusing. The appellant was convicted on April 3, 2001, of desecration of a venerated object. See Tenn. Code Ann.

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