Legal Opinion
Elliott v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 31, 1968PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Humphreys
Charles W. Elliott was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of rápe, and sentenced to death. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed by opinion filed May 3, 1968. This Court granted certiorari to examine certain alleged errors.
A very brief history of the case is that: On January 4, 1966, Mrs. Daphine Grimsley Huddleston, a forty-five year old white woman, was abducted by a Negro man who got into her parked car as she was leaving the parking lot of a shopping center in Clarksville, Tennessee. The man told her that he held a gun in his left hand nndeuhis coat, and under this-duress, she…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Norris v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Patton v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Carter v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
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3Cited by11 opinions
- State v. DraperCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1990
- Green v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1969
- McCracken v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1975
- Jones v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1970
- Watts v. State of TennesseeDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1984
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