SOMERVILLE v. STATE


483 S.W.2d 757 (1972)

James E. SOMERVILLE, Plaintiff in Error, v. STATE of Tennessee, Defendant in Error.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

June 14, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Kennon and Marvin P. Morton, Jr., Paris, for plaintiff in error.

David M. Pack, Atty. Gen., Weldon B. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, W.R. Kinton, Jr., Dist. Atty. Gen., A.H. Schoonover, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Trenton, Julian P. Guinn, Sp. Prosecutor, Paris, for defendant in error.


OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

On his trial under three indictments, the jury convicted the defendant, James E. Somerville, of burglary and assault with intent to commit first degree murder. The trial judge directed a verdict of not guilty on the charge of robbery with a deadly weapon. Somerville appeals in error from these convictions and sentences of five years for burglary and three to fifteen years for assault to commit first degree murder. The sentences...

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