Legal Opinion

Akers v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided March 2, 1940PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Greek

The defendant was found by the jury trying him to have been guilty of the offense of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquors and they fixed his fine at $400. To this the court added a workhouse sentence of ninety days, and from the judgment below the defendant has appealed in error.

Numerous assignments of error are made in this court, hut three of these assignments of error only are pressed upon us in brief and argument and our consideration may be confined to a discussion of these three contentions.

It is first urged that the court below erred in not sustaining the defendant’s motion…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Clark v. State Ex Rel. BoboTennessee Supreme Court · 1938
  2. McHenry v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1935

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Chadrick v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1940
  2. Curtis v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1966
  3. State v. UnderwoodCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1980
  4. Vickers v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1940

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