Blankenship v. State

This appeal comes from the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee.

The parties will be referred to herein as they appeared in the trial court; that is, plaintiffs in error John Ronald Blankenship, Leslie Norwood Carter and Jerry Lloyd McGill as defendants, and defendant in error as the State.

On March 31, 1964, the defendants were indicted for robbery by the use of a deadly weapon.

On October 12, 1965, the defendants were tried and found guilty as charged in the indictment. Their punishment was fixed at twenty-five years in the State Penitentiary. Judgment was entered in accord with the…