BISHOP v. STATE


582 S.W.2d 86 (1979)

James William BISHOP, Appellant, v. STATE of Tennessee, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Certiorari Denied May 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Rochelle and Ernest W. Cotten, Lebanon, for appellant.

Brooks McLemore, Jr., Atty. Gen., Jack E. Seaman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, R. David Allen, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Lebanon, for appellee.


Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court May 7, 1979.

OPINION

O'BRIEN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of second degree murder with punishment fixed at sixty (60) years in the penitentiary and for grand larceny for which he was sentenced to serve not less than six (6) years nor more than ten (10) years.

The victim of the homicide was a seventy-three-year-old widow who lived somewhat as a recluse in a two-story dwelling in Lebanon, Tennessee. The...

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