State v. Sheffield

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This is a direct appeal of a death penalty case. Defendant was convicted of first degree murder in the perpetration of rape and sentenced to death upon the jury’s finding of three aggravating circumstances, to wit: subsections 2, 5 and 7 of T.C.A. § 39 — 2—203(i), and no mitigating circumstances.

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Ruby Marlár and her husband Hill Mar-lar lived on Addison Street near the National Cemetery in Memphis. Their house was just a half block from Whittier Street, where defendant and his friend William Pratere, one of the principal witnesses, lived.

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