Taylor v. State

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

From a conviction of burglary in the third degree with punishment fixed at confinement for not more than five years in the State Penitentiary, Wilmon Taylor, Jr., George Willie Johnson, Mancie Walker, Jr., and Ralph Donald Smith appeal from the jury verdict in the Circuit Court of Hardin County.

The facts are briefly summarized in order to properly evaluate the assignments of error. Raymond Whitlow owned and operated a grocery business in Hardin County, Tennessee. In the early morning hours of June 15, 1968, while eating breakfast he noticed a red car leave his store which…