Legal Opinion
Watkins v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided June 2, 1965Published
1Opinion of the Court
393 S.W.2d 141 (1965)
William G. WATKINS and Lurton McNeil
v.
STATE of Tennessee.
Supreme Court of Tennessee.
June 2, 1965.
Rehearing Denied August 16, 1965.
John J. Hooker, Sr., Nashville, William J. Peeler, Waverly, for plaintiffs in error.
George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Thomas E. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the State.
BURNETT, Chief Justice.
The plaintiffs in error were convicted of accepting a bribe for releasing, or failing to prosecute, one Homer Lee Scott, who was found by them to be transporting intoxicating beverages through a dry county. Watkins was the Chief of the Alcohol Tax…
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- Wynn v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1944
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