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CATHEY v. STATE

235 S.W.2d 601 (1951)

CATHEY v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

January 13, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Brown, Centerville, for plaintiff in error.

Knox Bigham, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

TOMLINSON, Justice.

This appeal by J.D. Cathey is from a conviction of second degree murder with maximum punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for ten years and one day. The indictment alleges that Eugene Townsend is the name of the person who was killed.

One assignment of error is that the State has failed to establish the corpus delicti. The proof shows without contradiction that Cathey shot the...

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