Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-03
THE DEATH.SENTENCE.
Copy of the Supreme Court Judgments
I'm the Case Of Frank Scott, John
jefferson and Bill Will
IiRms.

Sheriff Anderson yes terday received
certified copies OF the death-sentence
passed by the supreme court of Tennes-
see upon Frank Scott, Bill Williams and
John Jefferson, coIoIed men, convicted
OF murder in this county. Scott and
Williams are to be hac ged Christmas
eve, a rather strange day for an execu.
ton. This has aroused no little COM
ment, and caused many to speak harsh
ly OF the supreme court for selecting
Christmas eve, as it would seem that
such will cause skeleton present at the
Christmas feast Of cur public. The fol-
lowing is copy Of
THE DEATR-sENTENCE
in the case OF Frank Scott:
State Of Teune see-PIeas before the supreme
court Of Tennessee for the western division,
at Jackson, on the fourth Monday i'll Sep
TENDER, A. ID. 1879.
Prostitution. A. o. P. Nicholson,
chief-justice, and Robert M'Farlsnd,
Thomas J. freeman, James W. Dead
erick, Peter Turney and John l.. T.
Sneed, associate judges.
To-Wit, Saturday, October 80, 1875.
Frank Scott Us the State of Tennessee;
murder. No. 81 State docket.
Came the plaintiff in error, Frank
Scott, in proper person, and the attor-
ney-general on behalf of the State of
Tennessee; and thereupon the record,
proceedings and judgment of the crimi.
nal court OF Shelby county in the cause
being seen and fully understood by this
court, and it appearing that in the same
there is no error, it is therefore con-
sidered by the court that the
Judgment Of the said criminal
court be and the same hereby is i'll all
things affirmed. Aud, therefore, the
said plaintiff in error, Frank Scott, is
brought to the bar of the court and asked
If he has anything further to say why
the sentence of the law should not he
passed upon him, and he saying nothing
further than he has already said, the
court proceeds to pass the following sem
tence, which is that he, the said Frank
Scott be remanded to the jail of Madi-
son county, thence to be taken by the
sheriff of said county, as soon as practi-
cable, to the Jail Of Shelby county and
delivered to the keeper thereof, to be
therein securely kept until Friday, the
twenty-fourth day OF December, 1875,
when he will be taken by the sheriff of
Shelby county, between the hours of ten
o'clock in the morning and two O'Clock
in the afternoon, TO a gallOws, to be
erected within one mile Of the court
house Of Shelby county, and there hung
by the neck until he is dead! dead!
dead and may God have mercy on his
soul.
1t is further considered by the court,
that the said plaintiff in error pay the
costs OF this cause ia this court and the
court below, for which let execution
issue; and that the clerk OF this court at
once make out and deliver to the sheriff
of Madison county certified copy of
this judgment.
The above sentence is duly certified to
as required by law, by John H. Free
man, clerk of the supreme court of Ten
nessee for the western division. The
ieath-sentence in the case OF Billy
Williams and John Jefferson are the
same in substance as this, the time and
place of execution being set forth there.
in. Williams will be hanged al Bart
lett the twenty. foufth instant, and JEFF
ferson in this city the seventh of JaDu-
airy next. since the trial o. Jefferson,
it has been ascertained that the negro |
he killed was armed with a pistol and |
would have murdered him al the first |
OppoTtu lity. This fact was not elected |
upon the tria', and therefore Jefferson is |
doomed to desth