Ellis v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM ROANE. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Roane County. S. A. Rogers, J.
1Opinion of the Court
(T. S. Webb, Sp. J.
Plaintiff in error was indicted in the Law Court of Rockwood for the murder of a woman named Mollie Scott, alias Mollie Reed. At the April term, 1892, of said Court ,he was convicted of murder in the first degree, with mitigating circumstances, and was sentenced to, imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. He filed *88motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, which were overruled, and he has appealed.
In the Court below the prisoner filed a special plea in abatement, averring that the Law Court of Rockwood had no jurisdiction to, try him upon the indictment, for the…
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