Legal Opinion

State v. Langston

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided April 28, 1986Published

1Opinion of the Court

708 S.W.2d 830 (1986)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

Wanda Gail LANGSTON, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

April 28, 1986.

Jerrold L. Becker, Knoxville, for defendant-appellant.

Kathy Principe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville (W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

BROCK, Chief Justice.

In this criminal case the trial court granted probation to the defendant but the Court of Criminal Appeals in a 2 to 1 decision reversed the judgment of the trial court granting probation and held that the defendant was not eligible to be…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. State v. GrearTennessee Supreme Court · 1978
  2. United States v. HenryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
  3. State v. HollingsworthTennessee Supreme Court · 1983
  4. State v. LangstonTennessee Supreme Court · 1986
  5. Owen P. Barnes, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955

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