Legal Opinion

State v. House

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 14, 1987PublishedCited by 43 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

HARBISON, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death by electrocution. After review of the entire record and after considering all of the issues raised by counsel for appellant, we affirm the conviction and the sentence.

The victim of the homicide was Mrs. Carolyn Muncey, who lived with her husband and two young children on Ridgecrest Road in rural Union County, Tennessee. Mrs. Muncey was in her late twenties, and her children were about eight and ten years old at the time of her death on July 13, 1985.

In March 1985 appellant Paul Gregory…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Francis v. FranklinSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. State v. HarringtonTennessee Supreme Court · 1981
  5. State v. JamesCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1984

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3Cited by43 opinions

  1. House v. BellSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
  2. State v. CazesTennessee Supreme Court · 1994
  3. State v. BigbeeTennessee Supreme Court · 1994
  4. State v. PikeTennessee Supreme Court · 1998
  5. State v. TeelTennessee Supreme Court · 1990

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