Legal Opinion
Sneed v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided October 27, 1976PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RUSSELL, Judge.
The appellant, John Henry Sneed, Jr., appeals his convictions on two charges of first degree murder in the shooting death of Rufus Watts and Mary Johnson, for which convictions he received consecutive life sentences.
The initial assignment of error questions the legal sufficiency of the convicting evidence in each case. We hold that the assignment is without merit.
The evidence reflects that the bodies of James Rufus Watts, and Mary Johnson were found by relatives on the morning of March 26, 1973, in a Chattanooga, Tennessee house where the victims resided as man and wife.…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- McBee v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1963
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3Cited by13 opinions
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