BLANKENSHIP v. STATE


410 S.W.2d 159 (1966)

John Ronald BLANKENSHIP, Leslie Norwood Carter, Jerry Lloyd McGill, Plaintiffs in Error, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 20, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh W. Stanton, Jr., Memphis, for John Ronald Blankenship.

Cordell Hull Sloan, Memphis, for Leslie Norwood Carter and Jerry Lloyd McGill.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Edgar P. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville for defendant in error. Phil M. Canale, Jr., Dist. Atty. Gen., Memphis, prosecuted the case for the State in the trial court.


OPINION

CRESON, Justice.

This appeal comes from the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee.

The parties will be referred to herein as they appeared in the trial court; that is, plaintiffs in error John Ronald Blankenship, Leslie Norwood Carter and Jerry Lloyd McGill as defendants, and defendant in error as the State.

On March 31, 1964, the defendants were indicted for robbery by the use of a deadly weapon.

On October 12, 1965...

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