Legal Opinion
Waugh v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided April 18, 1978PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BROCK, Justice.
In this criminal case, which is before the Court in two separate appeals, we deal with recurring problems of interpretation and application of our preliminary hearing statutes.
After the defendant Waugh’s arrest on March 13, 1975, he was formally charged in a warrant with the offense of robbery with a deadly weapon and on March 14, 1975, was brought before the city court of Memphis for a preliminary hearing. Upon the defendant’s request to confront and examine all of the State’s witnesses against him, specifically the victim and arresting officers, the hearing was reset…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Coleman v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Myers v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Wood v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
- Maestas v. District CourtSupreme Court of Colorado · 1975
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Houston v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1980
- State v. WilloughbyTennessee Supreme Court · 1980
- State v. McBeeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1982
- State v. CampbellTennessee Supreme Court · 1982
- Moore v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1979
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