RADER v. STATE


404 S.W.2d 487 (1966)

Dennis RADER, Plaintiff in Error, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 3, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter E. Fisher, Clinton, for Dennis Rader.

George F. McCanless, State Atty. Gen., William H. Lassiter, Jr., Asst. State Atty. Gen., Nashville, J. H. McCartt, Dist. Atty. Gen., Wartburg, and G. W. Ridemour, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Clinton, prosecuted case for the State in trial court, for the State.


OPINION

DYER, Justice.

Plaintiff in error, referred to as defendant, appeals from a conviction of rape for which he has been sentenced to serve 20 years in the State Penitentiary.

The defendant, as part of his defense, put into evidence, by witnesses, testimony of his good character. Error is assigned to the failure of the trial judge to charge the jury in respect to the testimony of good character, even though there was no special request for such...

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