Legal Opinion
State v. Strouth
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided June 8, 1981PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COOPER, Justice.
This case is before us on appeal by Donald Wayne Strouth from a judgment entered in the Criminal Court for Sullivan County, Tennessee. See T.C.A. § 39-2406. 1 Specifically, the judgment approved the jury’s verdicts (1) finding appellant guilty of robbery by the use of a deadly weapon and fixing his punishment at forty years in the state penitentiary, and (2) finding appellant guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing his punishment at death by electrocution.
Appellant was convicted of killing James Keegan in the course of the robbery of the Budget Shop in…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender RehabilitationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by86 opinions
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