GRINDSTAFF v. STATE


377 S.W.2d 921 (1964)

Buster Charles GRINDSTAFF, Plaintiff in Error, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Street, Banks, Merryman, & Musick, Elizabethton, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Attorney General, Edgar P. Calhoun, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.


WHITE, Justice.

The plaintiff in error was indicted upon a charge of murder in the second degree growing out of the collision of an automobile driven by him with another vehicle in which the deceased, Miss Kay Pierce, age 20, lost her life.

A jury found the defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter and fixed his punishment at not less than one nor more than three years in the State Penitentiary. The judge sentenced him in accordance with the verdict. When...

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