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BEAVER v. STATE

414 S.W.2d 841 (1967)

Van Allen BEAVER v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 5, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh Stanton, Public Defender, Memphis, James P. Diamond and Robert J. Holt, Jr., Jackson, Van Allen Beaver, per se, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Edgar P. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville; Sam Cantanzaro and Harry Bostick, Asst. Dist. Attys. Gen., Memphis, prosecuted the case for the State in the trial court.

OPINION

BURNETT, Chief Justice.

The parties herein will be referred to as they were in the lower court, that is, Beaver as the defendant and the defendant in error as the State. The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed at death by electrocution.

This murder was done in the perpetration of a robbery. The record shows that the defendant was an indigent person and the Public Defender of Shelby County was appointed...

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