Shanklin v. State

OPINION

GALBREATH, Judge.

There can be no reasonable doubt from the testimony of impartial witnesses in this case as to the facts leading up to the homicide resulting in the plaintiff in error’s indictment and conviction for first degree murder in the Criminal Court of Montgomery County. Unsatisfactorily answered is the question dealing with why the tragedy occurred. Seldom has a more senseless, irrational crime and its aftermath come before this Court for review.

On the 21st day of May, 1971, the defendant below, Henry Shanklin, entered the Clarksville barber shop of one Burney Jenkins, who at…