Coleman v. Tennessee

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1879-03-18

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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 indic…

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