Humphreys v. State

OPINION

DUNCAN, Judge.

The defendant, John Roger Humphreys, was indicted by the Washington County Grand Jury on two (2) charges of first degree murder, involving the deaths of John Roger Scholl and Susan Garrett Hum-phreys. The two (2) indictments were tried together, with the result that the defendant was found guilty of second degree murder in each case. He was sentenced to the penitentiary in each case for not less than ten (10) years nor more than twenty (20) years, the sentences to be served consecutively. The defendant has duly perfected his appeal to this Court.

In his first assignment of…