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State Ex Rel. Myers v. Brown

Citations

  • 351 S.W.2d 385
  • 209 Tenn. 141
  • 13 McCanless 141
  • 1961 Tenn. LEXIS 357

How courts have described this case

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  • the trial judge’s act of accepting the jury’s acquittal by making bench notes on the docket barred retrial
  • when an unambiguous verdict of acquittal was accepted by the trial judge, who recorded the verdict on his docket, the verdict could not be changed while the jury remained undischarged for the purpose of considering the punishment of co-defendants who were found guilty

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Judges: White

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