Morgan v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GRAINGER. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Grainger County.— Hon. Jas. L. Drinnon, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Green
The plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of an “unnamed male infant child of Jennie Watson,”^ and has been convicted of murder in the second degree, and has appealed in error to this court.
Jennie Watson is a young woman, unmanned, who lived in Grainger county. On the night of September 13, 1921, she gave birth to a child. Previously she and the plaintiff in error had maintained illicit sexual relations, although he denies that any of these acts occurred at a time that would have permitted of his being the father of the child.
The girl testified that, on the night her baby was born,…
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