Wharton v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. At the October Terra, 186-, of the Criminal Court of Davidson County, this cause was submitted to a jury, who returned a verdict of guilty, against the prisoner, and sentenced him to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary, from which he appealed. Judge John Hush Smith, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtMillisan, J.
The history of this case is somewhat peculiar, extending over a period of more than eight years. In 1860, the prisoner was indicted in the Criminal Court of Davidson County, for an alleged rape, committed when he was about seventeen years old, and the slave of Dr. William H. Wharton, upon the body of Elizabeth Hare. He has been three times convicted by a jury of the county, twice sentenced to death, and now *3stands for the third time, before this Court, under sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary of the State for the period of ten years.
The alleged rape was perpetrated on the 29th day…
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