Legal Opinion
Vaughn v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided October 12, 1971PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DWYER, Judge.
Roy Vaughn appeals from his conviction, with judgment pronounced thereon, of possessing a narcotic drug in violation of T. C.A. § 52-1303 with resulting confinement of not more than five years.
Gable Barnes appeals from a similar conviction and judgment with resulting punishment of confinement for not more than two years. The disparity in punishment is accounted for by the fact that Vaughn is a second offender.
At the trial level the two afore-related defendants submitted their cases at a joint trial in which they both, through retained counsel, waived a jury trial. They…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Higgins v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
- Thurman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1970
3Cited by4 opinions
- State v. VigilNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1974
- McGregor v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1972
- State v. EdwardsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
- State of Tennessee v. Charles Thomas Lard, II and Doreen Rebeca Gates LardCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2007