Strady v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
EROM TIPTON. The plaintiff in error, with one Sills, were convicted of murder in the first degree, at the-Term, 1867; sentence of death was pronounced, and an appeal taken to this Court. Sills has died since the appeal. Judge George W. Reeyes, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtMilligAN, J.
In 1866, the prisoner, Strady, with Daniel G. Walters and John Sills, — all free persons of color, — were indicted in the Circuit Court of Tipton County, for the murder of Joseph Dickey. Sills and Strady were tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be executed; from which they have appealed to this Court.
Sills, as it seems, is dead; and the case stands here alone in the name of Strady.
The bill of exceptions shows that the killing was perpetrated on the night of the 25th of May, 1866, in the store-house of the deceased. The next morning after the murder, the…
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