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Title: Dennis Helton v. State Tennessee
Author : Supreme Court of Tennessee
Release Date : January 07, 1977
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 66 KB

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COOPER, Chief Justice. OPINION Petitioner, Dennis Helton, was convicted of second degree murder for the slaying of his wife,
Linda Helton, and was sentenced to serve fifteen years in the penitentiary. The Court of Criminal Appeals, with one Judge
Dissenting, affirmed the conviction. This court granted certiorari, primarily to determine if the trial Judge, as the thirteenth
juror, approved the verdict of the jury. Petitioner and Linda Helton were married on three different occasions. The break-up of the first two marriages was due to
Mrs. Helton's association with Jerry Lawson. After the second divorce, Mrs. Helton married Mr. Lawson. The break-up of that
marriage was encouraged by petitioner. From these facts and other evidence, it is apparent that most of the turbulence in
the relationship between petitioner and Linda Helton had its origin in the attention paid Mrs. Helton by Jerry Lawson.