Legal Opinion

Hodges v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Decided January 12, 1973PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DWYER, Judge.

OPINION

From a judgment imposed on a jury’s verdict of guilty of murder in the perpe*626tration of rape, with a sentence of death by electrocution, the two defendants at the trial through the public defender have seasonably perfected this appeal.

Defendants primarily urge here three assignments of error: the evidence does not support the verdicts; the trial court erred in not granting a severance; and lastly the defendant Hodges was prejudiced by not being allowed to plead guilty. Ancillary to these assignments on appeal we find in the motions for new trial grounds which deal with a…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  3. Schneble v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. The United States of America v. Benjamin Levinson, Franklin Mortgage Corporation, Edward P. Strang, Jr., Ross HowardCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1968
  5. Hunter v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1969

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. Rose v. HodgesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Isadore Hodges, Jr., and Andrew Lewis, Jr. v. James Rose, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1978
  3. Parham v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1994
  4. Archie W. Willeford v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
  5. State v. StreetCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1988

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