Coleman v. Tennessee
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee. The facts are stated in the opinion of the. court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This case comes before us from the Supreme Court of Tennessee. The plaintiff in error, the defendant in the court below, was indicted in the Criminal Court for the District of Knox County in that State, on the 2d of October, 1874, for the murder of one Mourning Ann Bell, alleged to have been committed in that county on the 7th of March, 1865. To this indictment he pleaded not guilty, and a former conviction for the same offence by a general court-martial regularly' convened for his trial at Knoxville, Tenn., on the 27th of March, 1865, the United States at that time, and when the offence was…
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