Howard v. State

Me. Jtjstice Cbeson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff in error, Pred Howard, Jr., hereinafter called the defendant, was indicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, on October 9,1964, for murder in the first degree. The indictment charged him with the felonious, wilful, deliberate, premeditated and malicious killing of Johnny Earl Boykin, on September 30, 1964, The defendant was put to trial on January 27, 1965, in the Shelby County Criminal Court, the Honorable Sam D. Campbell, Judge, presiding.

After Rearing the evidence and charge of the Court, the jury returned a…