Legal Opinion

State v. Foutch

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided February 20, 1896PublishedCited by 11 opinions

■FROM DEKALB. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of DeKalb County. J. S. Cribble, J.

1Opinion of the CourtWilkes, J.

The defendant is convicted of an assault with intent to murder and sentenced to one year in the State penitentiary, and has appealed. The case is one of the most remarkable that has come under the observation of this Court. The charge of the trial Judge has a number of errors, but it is not necessary, in the view we have taken of the case, to pass upon them specially.

It appears that the defendant is a young man of excellent character, and against whom nothing appears in this record that is at all derogatory to his good morals and good citizenship. He is a married man with a wife and children.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Eversole v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1894

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Westmount Country Club v. KamenyNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1964
  2. State v. PreeceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1935
  3. Gray v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1952
  4. McClain v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1969
  5. Gannon v. CrichlowCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1931

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