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SOMMERVILLE v. STATE

521 S.W.2d 792 (1975)

James E. SOMMERVILLE, Petitioner, v. STATE of Tennessee, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 10, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin P. Morton, Jr., Paris, for petitioner.

R.A. Ashley, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert H. Roberts, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for respondent.

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

Sommerville's second trial, following reversal of his first conviction, resulted in a higher sentence. Nine of the jurors at the second trial acknowledged, on voir dire examination on November 14, 1972, they had read a newspaper article in the November 13, 1972 edition of the Paris Post-Intelligencer, reporting Sommerville's first conviction and a sentence of twenty years and a day...

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