Mays v. State

OPINION

JOHN D. TEMPLETON, Special Judge.

The Grand Jury of Hamilton County indicted jointly James Leonard Tolliver, Gregory Wooten, Michael Mays, Bobby Joe Mays and John Muckles for setting fire to a business house by the use of a fire bomb, T.C.A. § 39-5106. Tolliver and Wooten plea bargained out, probably on an attempt to commit the crime which is covered by T.C.A. § 39-5109, took two to five years imprisonment, and turned State’s witnesses. On the trial the other three were convicted of the crime charged in the indictment and sentenced to five to fifteen years. On their appeal in error we…