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WRIGHT v. STATE

405 S.W.2d 177 (1966)

Ed WRIGHT, Plaintiff in Error, v. STATE OF TENNESSEE, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 15, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. C. McMurtry, Gallatin, and Charles Haile, Celina, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Edgar P. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, and Baxter Key, Jr., Dist. Atty. Gen., Carthage, for the State in the trial court.

OPINION

CRESON, Justice.

This appeal comes from the Criminal Court of Clay County. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court; that is, plaintiff in error, Ed Wright, as defendant, and defendant in error as the State.

Defendant was indicted at the February 1963 Term of the Criminal Court of Clay County, for the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have occurred on or about November 17, 1962.

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