Andrews v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GIBSON. The prisoner in this case was tried in the circuit court of Gibson county, before Fitzgerald, judge, on a presentment for larceny. While the jury were returning into court with their verdict, the prisoner left the prisoner’s box and made his escape. The court received the verdict of guilty, and rendered judgment thereon in his absence.
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FROM GIBSON. The prisoner in this case was tried in the circuit court of Gibson county, before Fitzgerald, judge, on a presentment for larceny. While the jury were returning into court with their verdict, the prisoner left the prisoner’s box and made his escape. The court received the verdict of guilty, and rendered judgment thereon in his absence. The prisoner was soon afterwards arrested, and the execution of the sentence superseded by a circuit judge, until the next term, upon the petition of the prisoner for a writ of error eoram nobis. At the succeeding term he moved the court to set…
1Opinion of the CourtTotten, J.
The prisoner, Andrews, was prosecuted for larceny in the circuit court of Gibson, and at March term 1853, was arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and was put on his trial. He was present in court until the jury retired to consider of their verdict, when he escaped from custody. The jury returned into court and rendered a verdict of guilty, and that the prisoner be confined at labor in the penitentiary for two years. Judgment was rendered on the verdict. The prisoner having escaped, was not before the court when either the verdict or judgment was rendered.
After this term of the court, the prisoner…
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