BASS v. STATE


231 S.W.2d 707 (1950)

BASS v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 14, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. A. Peebles, of Columbia, Frank Reynolds, of Nashville, and R. R. Haggard, of Waynesboro, for plaintiff in error.

Nat Tipton, Assistant Attorney General, C. D. Hopkins and R. K. Woody, both of Columbia, for defendant in error.


WILLIAMS, Special Judge.

Arthur L. Bass has appealed in error from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Maury County, where he was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death.

He was a cousin of Rainer Bass, the man for whose murder he was indicted, and sometimes visited him. On Saturday, April 9, 1949, a neighbor of Rainer Bass was requested by telephone to notify him that Arthur Bass was in Columbia and wanted to meet him there. The two...

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