Legal Opinion
State v. Longstreet
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided July 13, 1981PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DROWOTA, Justice.
The defendant, Sam Longstreet, was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary. The Court of Criminal Appeals, holding that the trial court improperly admitted into evidence a rifle found in the defendant’s car, reversed the conviction and dismissed. The State applied for permission to appeal to this Court, contending that the search of the defendant’s automobile was constitutionally proper. We granted the application primarily to review the correctness of the Court of Criminal Appeals’ conclusion that there were no…
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3Cited by82 opinions
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