Legal Opinion
Draper v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 1874PublishedCited by 8 opinions
FROM FRANKLIN. Appeal from the Circuit Court. Samuel F. Fite, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Deaderick, Jv
delivered the opinion of the Court.
*247' The plaintiff in error was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the Penitentiary, at the January Term, 1875, of the Circuit Court of Jackson County.
A new trial was refused, and he has appealed to this Court.
Several errors, it is alleged, were committed in the progress of the trial below, for which, it is insisted, the judgment should be reversed, and a new trial granted.
1. Exception is taken to the first paragraph of .the Judge’s charge. After stating the offence charged, and that defendant had pleaded not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Simpson v. Register of the Land OfficeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1803
- Williams v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1872
3Cited by8 opinions
- McGill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1971
- State v. LeaphartCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1983
- Lewis v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1957
- Hughes v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1970
- Clark v. RoseDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1984
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