Ashcraft v. Tennessee

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1944-05-01

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Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court. About three o’clock on the morning of Thursday, June 5, 1941, Mrs. Zelma Ida Ashcraft got in her automobile at her home in Memphis, Tennessee, and set out on a trip to visit her mother’s home in Kentucky. Late in the afternoon of the same day, her car was observed a few miles out of Memphis, standing on the wrong side of a road which she would likely have…

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