Turner v. State

In the Criminal Court of Davidson County, the defendants, Turner, Scribner and Taylor, were convicted of rape and sentenced to death by electrocution. The case has been argued before us orally and separate briefs with numerous assignments of error have been filed to support the appeal of each defendant.

Some six months prior to the night of the crime, Miss “A” and Miss “B”, young white girls under twenty years of age, and Dillard (Steve) Morris, a white man of about the same age, had moved to Nashville from an adjoining county to attend a Nashville business college. Morris is a cousin of Miss…