STEELE v. STATE


225 S.W.2d 260 (1949)

STEELE et al. v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 10, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. R. Blankenship, of Knoxville, C. R. McClain, of Knoxville, for plaintiffs in error.

Nat Tipton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PREWITT, Justice.

The defendants appeal from conviction of rape and punishment fixed at death by electrocution.

This case was before this Court at the September term, 1948, following a conviction for the same offense with the same penalty, and was reversed because of inadmissible evidence introduced in the court below.

At the time of the commission of the offense the defendants were 18 and 19 years of age respectively. They do not seem to have been...

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