Lewis v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM ANDERSON. The plaintiffs in error were indicted and found guilty of murder in the first degree, before Judge Brown. The jury found that there were mitigating circumstances, and recommended the prisoners to the mercy of the Court. His Honor, the Circuit Judge, refused to commute the punishment, and the prisoners appealed in error. After the opinion of the Court was delivered, the counsel for the prisoners presented a petition for a re-hearing.
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FROM ANDERSON. The plaintiffs in error were indicted and found guilty of murder in the first degree, before Judge Brown. The jury found that there were mitigating circumstances, and recommended the prisoners to the mercy of the Court. His Honor, the Circuit Judge, refused to commute the punishment, and the prisoners appealed in error. After the opinion of the Court was delivered, the counsel for the prisoners presented a petition for a re-hearing. The principal grounds relied on in the petition will be found at the conclusion of the brief of the counsel. The Court refused the application for…
1Opinion of the CourtMcKinney, J.
The prisoners were jointly indicted in the Circuit Court of Campbell, for the killing of S. D. Queener and Travis Gibson. *142And at the July Term of the Circuit Court of Anderson — to which the venue was changed — they were jointly tried and convicted of murder in the first degree. The jury in their verdict expressed their opinion, that there were mitigating circumstances in the case; but the Court disregarded this expression of opinion, and pronounced judgment of death upon the prisoners; from which judgment they jointly appealed in error to this Court.
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