State Ex Rel. Smith v. Bomar

Henry Smith, Jr. was indicted, tried and convicted for the killing of the proprietor of a liquor store in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 2nd, i960 with a pistol while in the perpetration of a robbery. The jury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by electrocution: His motion for a new trial was overruled.

This conviction was appealed to this Court and upon consideration of the assignments of error set out therein the conviction was affirmed and the Court in so doing said: — “There is really no controversy about the facts.” The facts of the case were set out in the opinion, which…