Legal Opinion
Houston v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 7, 1980PublishedCited by 123 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COOPER, Justice.
This case is before us on appeal by Richard Houston from a judgment entered in the Criminal Court of Knox County, Tennessee. See T.C.A. § 39-2406. Specifically, the judgment approved the jury’s verdicts (1) finding appellant guilty of robbery by use of a deadly weapon and fixing his punishment at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary, and (2) finding appellant guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing his punishment at death by electrocution. The victim of both crimes was Far-ris Stanley Balsinger, operator of Stan’s Gulf Station in Knoxville, Tennessee. For…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by123 opinions
- State v. WilliamsTennessee Supreme Court · 1983
- State v. BrownTennessee Supreme Court · 1992
- State v. MiddlebrooksTennessee Supreme Court · 1992
- State v. OodyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1991
- State v. DuncanTennessee Supreme Court · 1985
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