Legal Opinion
Becton v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 21, 1974PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FONES, Justice.
The parties will be designated as follows, the petitioner, Robert Earl Becton, as defendant, and the respondent, State of Tennessee, as the State.
Defendant was convicted on a guilty plea in the Shelby County Criminal Court on May 1, 1971, of involuntary manslaughter, and was sentenced to not less than one nor more than five years in the penitentiary, with the actual place of confinement to be the Shelby County Penal Farm, by order of the trial court.
On November 23, 1971, after serving about six months of the sentence, defendant filed a petition for suspended sentence.
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- Bolin v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1966
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- Daugherty v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1965
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3Cited by5 opinions
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