Buchanan v. State

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

John H. Buchanan was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to ninety-nine years in the *400penitentiary by trial in the Criminal Court of Shelby County. He has perfected this appeal in the nature of a writ of error.

Several assignments question the sufficiency of the convicting evidence. We shall, therefore, briefly set out a resume of the State’s evidence, which evidence is before us now after having been accredited by the jury and the jury verdict having been approved by the trial judge.

On the evening of April 15, 1968, Gaia’s Liquor Store on Beale Street in…