Legal Opinion

Trentham v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided June 5, 1962Published

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Prewitt

The defendants below Gene Trentham and John Nichols, were convicted of burglary in the first degree and sentenced to serve not less than five nor more than seven years in the State Prison.

The assignments of error go principally to the sufficiency of the evidence.

Three witnesses testified for the State, Burch G. Biggs, the owner of the home entered by the defendants, W. O. Kennedy, with the TBI, and Tom Dalton, a Deputy Sheriff of Polk County.

The first witness testified that he and Mrs. Biggs, upon returning home from their cabin on the Parksville Lake, September 3, 1960, discovered their home…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Golay v. StoddardIdaho Supreme Court · 1939
  2. State ex rel. Martin v. FoleySupreme Court of Vermont · 1915

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