Legal Opinion
Palmer v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1869PublishedCited by 1 opinion
FROM WILSON. At the June Term, 1869, the defendant was convicted of feloniously breaking into the house of Sarah Joplin, under an indictment found upon the second section of An Act passed 17th of May, 1865. He was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment* in the penitentiary. He appealed to this Court. Judge John W. Phillips, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
John C. Gaut, Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
At the May Term of the Circuit Court of Wilson County, the Grand Jury of said court returned into said court a bill of indictment against the plaintiffs in error, and Henry Sewell, indorsed by their foreman, a true bill, which is in the following words and figures:
"State oe Tennessee, . \ " Wilson Comity, j
"Circuit Court,
"May Term, 1868.
"The Grand Jurors for the State of Tennessee, upon their oaths, present, that Henry Palmer, colored, and Henry Sewell, colored, on the 13th day of March, 1868, in the County of Wilson, did…
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