Shrader v. State

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

Judgment was pronounced on the jury’s verdict finding Charles Henry Shrader guilty of murder in the second degree with punishment of confinement for not more than ten years. Through privately-retained counsel he has seasonably perfected this appeal, with assignments of error contending the judgment is not compatible with the law.

Lee Phillips, the deceased, was shot and killed in his home in the Top Hollow com*917munity of Cocke County on a Monday evening in April. The defendant, who had been drinking, took his father, who had also been drinking, to the home of the deceased,…