COLEMAN v. TENNESSEE


97 U.S. 509 (____)

COLEMAN v. TENNESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry S. Foote and Mr. Leonidas C. Houk for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. J.B. Heiskell, contra.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes before us from the Supreme Court of Tennessee. The plaintiff in error, the defendant in the court below, was indicted in the Criminal Court for the District of Knox County in that State, on the 2d of October, 1874, for the murder of one Mourning Ann Bell, alleged to have been committed in that county on the 7th of March, 1865. To this indictment he pleaded not guilty, and a former conviction for...

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