Deathridge v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MEIGS. The plaintiff was indicted in the circuit court of Meigs county for the crime of arson. After several ineffectual efforts to get a jury in Meigs, the venue was changed to the county of Hamilton. At the November Term, 1852, of the circuit court of Hamilton, (Keith, J., presiding,) the plaintiff in error was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for nine years.
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FROM MEIGS. The plaintiff was indicted in the circuit court of Meigs county for the crime of arson. After several ineffectual efforts to get a jury in Meigs, the venue was changed to the county of Hamilton. At the November Term, 1852, of the circuit court of Hamilton, (Keith, J., presiding,) the plaintiff in error was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for nine years. His motion for a new trial, and in arrest of judgment, were made and severally overruled,' and he appealed in error to this court. The chief ground of error assigned, was, that the prisoner was convicted on his…
1Opinion of the Court
Totten, J.,
delivered tlie opinion of tlie court.
Tlie prisoner was convicted in the circuit court of Hamilton upon a charge of arson. Ilis motion for a new trial was overruled, to which he excepted, and has appealed in error to this court.
Tlie indictment charges in substance, that the prisoner and Philip Wilson, and Geo. Gideon, unlawfully, feloniously and maliciously set on fire a store house, containing $3,000 worth of goods, and that the whole was consumed.
We are to consider the case as it relates to the prisoner Deathridge.
The errors assigned, relate to the ruling of the court below upon…
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