TERRELL V. STATE
86 Tenn. 523, 8 S.W. 212 (1888)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was an appeal of a mayhem conviction.
FACTS: Terrell (D) struck a prosecutor in the eye with a brick, causing him to lose sight in that eye. The prosecutor was already blind in one eye and the blow rendered him completely blind. D was indicted for mayhem. Mayhem was defined as bodily injury that renders a man less able in fighting to defend himself or annoy his adversary; but if the injury be such as disfigures him only, without diminishing his corporeal abilities, it does not fall within the crime of mayhem. D requested a jury instruction for specific intent only. D was denied and he was convicted. D appealed.
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