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BARKSDALE v. STATE

292 S.W.2d 193 (1956)

Berdie Lee BARKSDALE v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 8, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughie Ragan, Jackson, for plaintiff in error.

Nat Tipton, Advocate Gen., Nashville, for the State.

TOMLINSON, Justice.

In 1951 the home (probably a one or two room cabin) of Berdie Lee Barksdale was destroyed by fire. Her two children, three years and fourteen months of age, respectively, were burned to death in that fire. As a result, she was indicted in 1955, and convicted of murder in the first degree with a sentence of life imprisonment. She has appealed.

Perhaps it should be explained that it was while she...

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