SEAGROVES v. STATE


281 S.W.2d 644 (1955)

Stanley SEAGROVES v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

August 2, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeff D. Fults, Tracy City, Frank Davenport, McMinnville, for appellant.

Knox Bigham, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


PREWITT, Justice.

The defendant, Stanley Seagroves, age 22, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at a sentence of not more than three years in prison.

The deceased, Pascal Anderson, was 59 years of age at the time of his death. He was a country preacher and lived near a church building on Sweeton Hill, near Coalmont, Tennessee, at the time of his death. Sometime before his death Anderson had been appointed a Deputy Sheriff, and...

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