Legal Opinion
Murphy v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided March 29, 1968PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice CresoN
This appeal comes from the Criminal Court of Overton County, Tennessee. The parties will be referred to herein as they appeared in the trial court; that is, plain tiff in error Keitli Murphy as defendant, and defendant in error as the State.
The defendant was indicted on June 4, 1965, for the crime of murder in the first degree while in the perpetration of the crime of arson. He was tried on August 3, 1965. The defendant was found guilty as charged in the indictment and sentenced to twenty years in the State Penitentiary. On appeal, his conviction was reversed, on the basis that the sentence…
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