State v. Hoover

OPINION

SCOTT, Judge.

The appellant, indicted for the first degree murder of his cousin, Anthony Brewer, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty-five years in the state penitentiary. In his appeal, which was filed before the new Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure became effective, he assigned three errors. Since none relate to the convicting evidence, we will not detail the circumstances of the offenses nor the appellant’s self defense allegation.

One assignment of error, that the court failed to excuse for cause a certain venireman, was not presented to the…