Coleman v. State

First degree murder; sentence: life imprisonment.

Mary Crook of Pulaski, Tennessee, testified that the victim, William T. Marsh, was her brother and that she had seen him almost daily for most of his life. She stated that her brother was a kidney patient at Vanderbilt Medical Center and required routine checkups. Crook testified that she last saw her brother alive on January 3, 1979. After the Fayetteville, Tennessee police informed her that her brother's truck had been found, Crook filed a missing persons report with the Giles County Sheriff's Department.

Madison County Sheriff's Department…