Holder v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM OBION. Writ of error to the.Circuit Court of Obion County.— Joseph E. Jones, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Neil
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the circuit court of Obion county for the murder of his father, Rev. B. L. Holder, and was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Against this judgment he has sued out a writ of error in this court, and has prayed that the sentence be reviewed.
The errors assigned are upon certain rulingsi of the circuit court in the admission of testimony and upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. Passing for the present the first class of questions, we shall proceed at once to the case made by the evidence.
About ten o’clock on the night of December…
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