Legal Opinion
Hunter v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 18, 1972PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DYER, Chief Justice.
Plaintiffs in error were convicted of the offense of rape in the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Division III. Punishment for each plaintiff in error was fixed at death by electrocution. From the adverse judgments of the trial court, plaintiffs in error perfected an appeal to this Court. We affirmed the judgments of conviction. Hunter v. State (1969) 222 Tenn. 672, 440 S.W.2d 1. Thereafter, the Supreme Court of the United States vacated the judgments and remanded the cause to this Court for consideration of plaintiffs’ in error contention that they were denied a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Duncan v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by27 opinions
- State v. BlackTennessee Supreme Court · 1991
- John Eldon Smith, or Anthony Isalldo MacHetti v. Charles Balkcom, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- State v. MartinTennessee Supreme Court · 1997
- State v. FarnerTennessee Supreme Court · 2002
- Bullard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1977
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