(DOWNLOAD) "State Tennessee v. Sam Walter Patton" by Supreme Court of Tennessee # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Tennessee v. Sam Walter Patton
- Author : Supreme Court of Tennessee
- Release Date : January 31, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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COOPER, JUSTICE Petitioner, Sam Walter Patton, was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to serve thirty years in the state penitentiary for the pistol slaying of his wife, Shirley Patton. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction. This court granted certiorari to determine (1) whether the state had carried its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that petitioner was sane at the time he killed his wife, and (2) whether prejudicial error was committed by the trial Judge in permitting the state to cross-examine the petitioner as to prior bad acts or specific instances of misconduct and in receiving rebuttal testimony on the same or similar acts of misconduct. From our review of the record, we are convinced that the state carried its burden on the issue of sanity and that no prejudicial error was committed in showing petitioner's propensity for violence.