Legal Opinion
State v. Smith
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 1993PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’BRIEN, Justice.
This is the second trial for the defendant who has twice been indicted and convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Mrs. Novella Webb and each time has been sentenced to death by electrocution.1
The evidence shows that on 21 May 1984 defendant, his girlfriend, Angela O’Quinn, and David Wayne Hartsock were sitting in defendant’s Ford Pinto automobile drinking and smoking marijuana when Hartsock and the defendant began plotting a robbery. After leaving O’Quinn, the two men drove *5to a country store in eastern Sullivan County operated by an elderly couple,…
2Cases cited63 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by178 opinions
- State v. OdomTennessee Supreme Court · 1996
- State v. CazesTennessee Supreme Court · 1994
- State v. BigbeeTennessee Supreme Court · 1994
- State v. BanksTennessee Supreme Court · 2008
- State v. StephensonTennessee Supreme Court · 1994
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