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Tennessee Supreme Court· 11/19/1973

Burlison v. State

Citations

  • 501 S.W.2d 801
  • 1973 Tenn. LEXIS 537

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the election requirement is “fundamental, immediately touching the constitutional rights of an accused, and should not depend upon his demand therefor”
  • finding that the right to a unanimous jury verdict is “fundamental, immediately touching the constitutional rights of an accused”
  • stating that the election requirement “should not depend on [a] demand therefor”
  • characterizing the requirement of jury unanimity as “fundamental” and “immediately touching the constitutional rights of an accused”
  • discussing the ruling in Jamison, which has been distinguished a nd partially overruled by Rickman on an unre lated issue
  • finding an election should have been required where the defendant was charged with having “carnal knowledge” of the victim on “divers days between the summer of 1964 and August, 1969,” but the proof did not show any particular date

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Judges: Fones, Dyer, Chattin, Mc-Canless, Leech

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Cites

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