# State v. Harrington

> Tennessee Supreme Court · December 28, 1981 · 627 S.W.2d 345

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9666972

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Loshie Pitts HARRINGTON, Appellant
- **Court:** Tennessee Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 28, 1981
- **Citations:** 627 S.W.2d 345; 1981 Tenn. LEXIS 518
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Brock
- **Judges:** Cooper, Harbison, Fones, Drowo-Ta, Brock
- **Cited by:** 100 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that reversal was warranted where the jury foreman read biblical passages to the jury to support his argument for imposition of the death penalty
- holding that an amendment correcting the date on which the witnesses were sworn did not prejudice the defendant
- holding error occurred when “the jury foreman but- tressed his argument for imposition of the death penalty by reading to the jury selected biblical passages”
- holding error occurred when “the jury foreman buttressed his argument for imposition of the death penalty by reading to the jury selected biblical passages”

## Opinion text

BROCK, Justice,
concurring in part; dissenting in part.
For the reasons set out in my dissenting opinion in State v. Dicks, Tenn., 615 S.W.2d 126 (1981), I would hold that the death penalty is unconstitutional; in all other respects I concur in the Court’s majority opinion.

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