Potter v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Roane County. August Term, 1886. S. A. Rodgers, J.
1Opinion of the CourtSnodgrass, J.
Potter was indicted and convicted in the Circuit Court of Roane County for the murder of William Walls, committed on December 29th, 1881.
The verdict was for murder in the first degree, with mitigating circumstances, and he was accordingly sentenced to the penitentiary for' life.
Motion for a new trial having been overruled, he appealed in error to this Court.
The facts are few and simple, and are not the subject of much controversy. On the day of the *90killing the plaintiff in error went to Oliver Springs (Winter’s Gap), and in or near a saloon at that place met -the deceased.
Several witnesses…
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