STATE of Tennessee v. Courtney KNOWLES

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON March 4, 2015 Session STATE OF TENNESSEE V. COURTNEY KNOWLES Appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeals Criminal Court for Shelby County No. 07-06139 James M. Lammey, Judge No. W2013-00503-SC-R11-CD – Filed July 31, 2015 GARY R. WADE, J., dissenting. “Hard cases, it has frequently been observed, are apt to introduce bad law.” Winterbottom v. Wright, 152 Eng. Rep. 403, 404 (1842). The same is true of “cases in which . . . moral indignation . . . is aroused” by egregious facts. Glanville Williams, The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law 105 (1957).…