Grindstaff v. State

377 S.W.2d 921 (1964)

Buster Charles GRINDSTAFF, Plaintiff in Error,

v.

STATE of Tennessee, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 5, 1964.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1964.

Street, Banks, Merryman, & Musick, Elizabethton, for plaintiff in error.

George F. McCanless, Attorney General, Edgar P. Calhoun, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

WHITE, Justice.

The plaintiff in error was indicted upon a charge of murder in the second degree growing out of the collision of an automobile driven by him with another vehicle in which the deceased, Miss Kay Pierce, age 20, lost her life.

A jury…