Pique v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Jimmie Pique, appeals in error from his conviction of first degree murder of Willie Bolden and sentence to 99 years in the penitentiary.

Pique shot Bolden twice in the back of the head and four or five times in the back while Bolden was in bed at the home of Mary Helen Weaver in Knoxville. Bolden was apparently lying face down at the time of the fatal shots.

The state’s proof, which the jury accepted, showed that about 3:00 A.M., November 17, 1971, the defendant told others that Bolden could not shoot at his wife and get away with it and he (the…