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O'DEAR v. STATE

516 S.W.2d 622 (1974)

William McKinley O'DEAR, Petitioner, v. STATE of Tennessee, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

November 12, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Bean, Howard G. Betty, Winchester, Sam R. Raulston, Raulston & Swafford, Jasper, for petitioner.

David M. Pack, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Weldon B. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for respondent.

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

William McKinley O'Dear was tried in the Grundy County Criminal Court in December, 1972, for the alleged murder of Dolphus C. Pickett. The jury found Mr. O'Dear guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his punishment at twenty years and a day in the State Penitentiary. Sentence was pronounced accordingly. On appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction. A petition for certiorari was filed, raising the same...

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