Legal Opinion
State v. Elliott
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided May 27, 1975PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COOPER, Justice.
Otis Elliott and Jerry Wayne Mitchum were convicted “of murder in the first degree committed while engaged in the crime of robbery,” and were sentenced to ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. A divided Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the convictions and remanded for a new trial. This court granted certiorari to review the holding of the Court of Criminal Appeals that (1) the failure of the State to provide defendants with a transcript of a pretrial hearing for the suppression of defendants’ oral confessions was reversible error, and (2) that defendants’ right to a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Britt v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by40 opinions
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