STATE v. BOMAR


368 S.W.2d 748 (1963)

STATE of Tennessee, ex rel. Henry SMITH, Jr., Plaintiff in Error, v. Lynn BOMAR, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 10, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mose J. Davie, Nashville, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Henry C. Foutch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the State.


WHITE, Justice.

Henry Smith, Jr. was indicted, tried and convicted for the killing of the proprietor of a liquor store in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 2nd, 1960 with a pistol while in the perpetration of a robbery. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by electrocution. His motion for a new trial was overruled.

This conviction was appealed to this Court and upon consideration of the assignments of error set out therein the conviction was...

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