ROE v. STATE


358 S.W.2d 308 (1962)

Audrey Mildred ROE v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 5, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Heiskell, Memphis, Montedonico, Boone, Gilliland, Heiskell & Loch, Memphis, of counsel, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Thomas E. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the State.


FELTS, Justice.

Plaintiff in error, Mrs. Roe, was indicted for murder in the second degree of her husband, Frank Roe, "with an automobile." She was acquitted of murder, but convicted of the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter and her punishment fixed by the jury at 9 months in the county workhouse.

She appealed in error and has assigned errors insisting that there is no credible evidence to support the verdict; that the evidence preponderates...

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