Dove v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM MONTGOMERY. Criminal Court, January Term, 1871, before Jakes E. Rice, J. insisted: 1st, that the transcript of the record from the Circuit Court of Montgomery, to the Criminal Court of Montgomery, is not properly certified.
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PROM MONTGOMERY. Criminal Court, January Term, 1871, before Jakes E. Rice, J. insisted: 1st, that the transcript of the record from the Circuit Court of Montgomery, to the Criminal Court of Montgomery, is not properly certified. The proceedings had in the Circuit Court in regard to the bill of indictment in this ease, should have been certified to the Criminal Court, under the signature of the Clerk, who was the custodian of the record: Act of 1870, c. 115, s. 10, creating Criminal Court of Montgomery; Code, 3794. Definition of word “Court,” used in Act of 1870: Bouvier’s Law Diet., word…
1Opinion of the CourtNicholson, C. J.
Bichard Dove was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree, for killing William Diggins. The jury found that the murder was committed with mitigating circumstances, whereupon he was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. He has appealed to this court. The case was tried at the January Term, 1871, of the Crim*355inal Court of Montgomery county, where the following evidence was adduced:
The first witness introduced by the State was Virginia Holland. Defendant objected to her examination on the ground that she was his wife, but refused to examine her on voir dire, and objected to her…
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