Watson v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM CAMPBELL. Appeal from the Criminal and Law Court of Campbell County. — Xeu Hicks, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Buchanan
• By general verdict of the trial jury Allan Watson was convicted upon an indictment charging forgery *200in its first connt,' and passing a forged note in its second connt, and from the judgment of the trial court overruling his motion for a new trial and imposing sentence on him, he has prosecuted an appeal.
The only defense on which he relied below was insanity at the time of the commission of the acts charged against him; He did not testify upon the trial of the cause. He advances here two grounds for reversal.of the judgment. One of these is that the court below should have allowed Hr. Morris…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Reynolds v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- Guiteau's CaseDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1882
- Johnson v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1898
3Cited by12 opinions
- Clarence Phillips v. William S. Neil, Warden, Tennessee State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1971
- Quinley v. CockeTennessee Supreme Court · 1946
- McElroy v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1921
- Davis v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1930
- Haskins v. HowardTennessee Supreme Court · 1929
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