Clapp v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM CLAIBORNE. Appeal from Circuit Court'1 of Claiborne Count)1-. W. R. Hicics, J.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAlister, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Circuit Court of Claiborne County for the murder of James. Cunningham. At the May term, 1894, of said Court he was put upon trial, convicted by a jury of the crime of murder in the first degree, and sentenced by the Court to suffer death by hanging. The prisoner- appealed.
On Sunday evening, December 3, 1893, the body of James Cunningham, a respectable white citizen of Claiborne County, was found on the floor of his late residence. The deceased was a single man who had never been married, and lived by himself in an unpretentious dwelling in an out of…
2Cited by91 opinions
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- STATE of Tennessee v. DeWayne COLLIER AKA Patrick CollierTennessee Supreme Court · 2013
- State v. FowlerTennessee Supreme Court · 1963
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