LESTER v. STATE


370 S.W.2d 405 (1963)

Charlie LESTER v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 15, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. W. McKenzie, Dayton, for plaintiff in error.

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


BURNETT, Chief Justice.

This is a homicide case, wherein a father was convicted of shooting his son. The sentence by the jury was that the father serve ten (10) years in the State penitentiary, from which conviction an appeal has been seasonably perfected and ably argued before the bar of this Court. After carefully reading the record, studying the authorities, etc., we now have the matter for disposition.

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