Legal Opinion

Wiggins v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided October 16, 1926PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Ms. Chiee Justice Green

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiffs in error were found guilty of petit larceny. The punishment of Wiggins was fixed at two years in the Penitentiary. Fugate was fined $50 and given a sentence of thirty days in the county jail. Powers was fined $25 and given a sentence of ten days in the county jail. All the parties appealed in error to this court. Pending the appeal Wiggins died. The case will, therefore, he abated as to him.

No hill of exceptions was preserved and the errors here assigned in behalf of Fugate and Powers relate solely to the action of the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Jones v. WestTennessee Supreme Court · 1918
  2. State v. BockmanTennessee Supreme Court · 1917

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Carver v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1966
  2. In Re HoustonTennessee Supreme Court · 1968
  3. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. HinesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1927
  4. State of Tennessee v. Hassan Falah Al MutoryTennessee Supreme Court · 2019
  5. State of Tennessee v. Hassan Falah Al MutoryTennessee Supreme Court · 2019

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