Stallard v. State

■Mb. Justice Prewitt

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendants, Roy Stallard and Garrett C. Alvis, Jr., were convicted of the murder of Alvin Rentfro, their conviction being for murder in the first degree, with the punishment of each fixed at 99 years in the penitentiary. Both parties have appealed to this Court, but Stallard only has filed assignments of error. The case as to Stal-lard has been argued at the bar and fully presented.

The deceased was a young man who lived at Cleveland, Tennessee, and was associated with his brother in the sale of used cars. On the night of November 30,…