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ELLIOTT v. STATE

435 S.W.2d 812 (1968)

Charles W. ELLIOTT, Plaintiff-in-error, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant-in-error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 31, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter A. Sanford, Clarksville, Roscoe J. Hamby, and Avon N. Williams, Jr., Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Attorney General, and George W. McHenry, Jr., and Robert F. Hedgepath, Assistant Attorneys General, of Nashville, for defendant in error.

OPINION

HUMPHREYS, Justice.

Charles W. Elliott was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of rape, and sentenced to death. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed by opinion filed May 3, 1968. This Court granted certiorari to examine certain alleged errors.

A very brief history of the case is that: On January 4, 1966, Mrs. Daphine Grimsley Huddleston, a forty-five year old white woman, was abducted by a Negro man who got into her parked car as...

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