Legal Opinion

Roberts v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Decided May 30, 1972PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

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GALBREATH, Judge.

On the trial resulting in appellant’s conviction for selling marijuana in violation of T.C.A. § 52-1303 the State relied primarily on the testimony of an undercover T. B. I. agent, Mr. Tom Whitlatch, who alleged he was taken to the rural Grundy County home of the defendant by another man who was present when the purchase of two pouches of the drug for twenty dollars took place about 8:30 P.M. on the 30th day of July, 1971. The defendant emphatically denied that, and he was corroborated in this by his sister in law, who testified that she had been present at the home of…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Roviaro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. Williams v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Simmons v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1955
  4. Eason v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1873

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. House v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 2001
  2. Carver v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1978
  3. State v. OsteinTennessee Supreme Court · 2009
  4. State v. MaddoxCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1997
  5. Leon Robins v. James FortnerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2012

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