CRAWFORD v. STATE


273 S.W.2d 689 (1954)

J.C. CRAWFORD v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Petition to Rehear November 29, 1954.

Petition to Rehear Denied December 16, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Todd, Jr., and Wm. S. Todd, Kingsport, for plaintiff.

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


SWEPSTON, Justice.

The defendant appeals from a conviction for the homicide of C.M. Bragg, the conviction being for voluntary manslaughter with a maximum punishment fixed at four years in the State prison.

The three assignments of error are (1) the admission of a dying declaration, (2) permitting the defendant's character witnesses to be questioned as to whether they had heard or known about defendant having cut with a knife a third party on a previous occasion...

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