STATE v. CHRISTMAS


529 S.W.2d 717 (1975)

STATE of Tennessee, Petitioner, v. Thomas CHRISTMAS, Respondent. STATE of Tennessee, Petitioner, v. Von McLEMORE, Respondent (two cases). STATE of Tennessee, Petitioner, v. Tommy PETERS, Respondent. STATE of Tennessee, Petitioner, v. Von McLEMORE and Tommy Peters, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

November 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.A. Ashley, Jr., Atty. Gen., Michael E. Terry, Asst. Atty. Gen., H. Kenneth Deatherage, Dist. Atty. Gen., for petitioners.

Edward Michael Ellis, Charles H. Child, Knoxville, for respondents.


OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

We granted the State's petition in these consolidated drug cases and set them for oral argument along with State v. Gaddis and Davis because they raised essentially the same questions.

In each of these cases the defendant moved the court for an order directing the district attorney general to furnish a sample of the controlled substance "to enable the defendant to have this substance analyzed in order to properly put...

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