Briggs v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Represented in their trial and here by the Public Defender appointed by the court, Fred Lee Thomas Briggs and Arbee Coleman have perfected their appeals in the nature of a writ of error to this Court contesting their Shelby County Criminal Court convictions, on March 2, 1972, of murder committed in the perpetration of a robbery, for which they were sentenced to death.

Assigning Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 as his reason for doing so, on December 1, 1972 the Governor of Tennessee commuted the sentence of each of the defendants from death to…