Darnell v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM FRANKLIN. Appeal in error from the Circuit Court of Franklin County. — S. D. McEeynolds, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Neil
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the circuit court of Franklin county, at its December term, 1909, charged with the murder of one T. J. Harrison. He was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged. From this judgment he has appealed, and assigned errors.
In the view we take of the case it is necessary to mention only two of these assignments.
The first of these is that the act under which the jury was impaneled, commonly known as the “jury law of Franklin county” (Acts 1905, c. 2S3),isunconstitutional because the body of the act is broader than its title. The…
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