McCORD v. STATE


278 S.W.2d 689 (1955)

Leon McCORD v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing denied May 6, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Bell, Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

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


PREWITT, Justice.

The defendant, Leon McCord, appeals in error here from a conviction of voluntary manslaughter, with punishment fixed at a six-year sentence to the State Training School for Colored Boys.

The only insistence made is that the State failed to prove the cause of death. It seems there are no disputed facts as to how the fatal encounter occurred. These two colored boys engaged in a fight during which defendant stuck his knife in the chest of deceased...

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