Waddle v. State

At the June term, 1902, of the circuit court of Lincoln county the plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of Pleas hievils. The defendant interposed a plea of not *558guilty. Tlie case was tried at tlie ensuing term of the court, hut, the jury haying failed to agree, a mistrial was entered. The plaintiff in error was again placed on trial at the February term, 1903, when the jury returned in writing the following yerdict:

“We, the jury in the case of State of Tennessee v. Charles Waddle, alias Charles H. Waddle, beg to report that we find him guilty as charged in the indictment, with…