Legal Opinion
Ledger v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 9, 1955PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Prewitt
These two defendants below William Ledger and William H. Plaggard were convicted of burglary and sen tenced to not more than three years in the penitentiary. Haggard was also charged and convicted nnder the Habitual Criminal Act.
The proof shows that the home of Mrs. Hazel Talley was broken into and a combination radio-phonograph and two electric irons were stolen. The burglar or burglars entered the house by prying a padlock’off the door.
'The State’s proof shows that- ibis breaking in and entering was between Friday .night and Sunday night, in September of 1954.
Sometime later the defendants…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Schwabacher v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
- Commonwealth v. ReynoldsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- State v. NeddoSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1898
- State v. NewellSupreme Court of Vermont · 1919
- State v. BurnsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1912
3Cited by17 opinions
- Haggard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1971
- Key v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1978
- Buford Linwood St. Clair v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1967
- United States v. William Henry Taylor A/K/A Baldy Briley A/K/A William Briley TaylorCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1989
- Greer v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1976
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