Terrell v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
EROM WEAKLEY. Appeal in error from the Circuit Court of "Weakley County. W. H. Swiggert, J.
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, J.
The plaintiff in error, Neel Terrell, stands convicted of the crime of mayhem, and is under sentence of two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.
The indictment charges him with having unlawfully, feloniously, willfully, and maliciously made an assault upon the prosecutor, James Wilson, and struck him in one eye with a stone, or some other hard substance, whereby the eye was put out, and the prosecutor was maimed and disfigured.
It is shown in the proof, and admitted by the prisoner, that he struck the prosecutor in one eye with “a half of a brick,” and that the prosecutor was thereby…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. TynenSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
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