Legal Opinion

Reagan v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided May 9, 1927PublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Ms. Justice McKinney

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff in error, Roscoe Reagan, has appealed from a judgment sentencing him to the penitentiary for one year for involuntary manslaughter.

On Sunday night, September 1, 1906, the plaintiff in error, Lute Clark and Jim Martin Gillentine, referred to herein as the defendants, borrowed three guns, secreted themselves under some trees on the side of the road and when George Manis, Orville Huddleston, Virgil Beatty and John Buck rode by oh their horses fired into them, killing George Manis and wounding the other three.

The three…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Barnett v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
  2. Strady v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1868
  3. Rutherford v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1883
  4. Goaler v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1875
  5. Moody v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1869

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. State v. TrustyTennessee Supreme Court · 1996
  2. Woodruff v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1932
  3. State v. MellonsTennessee Supreme Court · 1977
  4. State v. BolinTennessee Supreme Court · 1996
  5. Jenkins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1974

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