BOSTICK v. STATE


360 S.W.2d 472 (1962)

Mrs. Neva BOSTICK v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

September 21, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will Tom Abernathy, Selmer, Ross & Ross, Savannah, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Lyle Reid, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the State.


FELTS, Justice.

Plaintiff in error, Mrs. Neva Bostick, shot and killed her husband, Owens Bostick, with a pistol. For this, she was indicted for murder, tried, and found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary.

She appealed in error and has assigned errors insisting that the evidence preponderates against the verdict of guilt and in favor of her innocence; and that the Trial Court erred in refusing four special...

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