Freeman v. State

OPINION

OLIVER, Judge.

Freeman, represented in his trial and here by members of the Metropolitan (Davidson County) Public Defender’s staff, is in this Court by an appeal in the nature of a writ of error contesting the validity of his armed robbery conviction, for which he was sentenced to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for 25 years. A co-defendant, Leroy Bracey, was granted a severance.

Upon motion of this defendant, the trial court granted him a separate trial upon the question of his sanity at the time of the offense, and that jury found him to be sane at that time. At the later trial…