Bryant v. State

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

This appeal from a conviction for murder in the second degree with resulting punishment of confinement for not less than ten years nor more than ten years is before us in compliance with the mandates of our Supreme Court as outlined in Bryant v. State, Tenn., 527 S.W.2d 742 (1975).

In evaluating the assignments of error urging the insufficiency of the evidence, we will summarize the evidence as found from our review.

The deceased, the husband of the plaintiff-in-error, expired from a gunshot wound inflicted as he lay asleep in bed on the early morning hours of March 5, 1972.…