Woodruff v. State

The three plaintiffs in error above named were jointly indicted in the Criminal Court of Davidson County for the murder of M. T. Mulvihill. On their joint trial they were found guilty by a jury of murder in the first degree, and the punishment of each of them was fixed in the verdict at death by electrocution. Judgment was rendered in accord with the verdict, from which the plaintiffs in error have prosecuted an appeal in the nature of a writ of error to this court.

No controverted questions of fact are presented by the record. There is no conflict in the evidence with regard to any material…