Moon v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Error to the Criminal Court of Shelby County. — Hon. J. Ed. Richards, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKinney
The plaintiff in error, J. S. Moon, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted in the criminal court of Shelby county of murder in the first degree for killing his wife, Drew Foster Moon on Wednesday afternoon, August 24, 1921, with a pistol, and his punishment was fixed at death by electrocution.
The defendant has appealed to this court, and has assigned ten errors, the first three of which question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury.
The defendant on the afternoon of the killing and at the time of the-killing was riding with his wife in his…
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