McDonald v. State

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

The questions presented in this appeal by the Public Defender’s Office of Shelby County from a conviction of murder in the second degree, T.C.A. 39-2403, with punishment of confinement for forty years go to the sufficiency of the evidence and the admission into evidence over objection the statement of the decedent. It is conceded that if the admission of the latter was proper, the evidence to support the conviction is sufficient.

The evidence accredited by the verdict of the jury reflects from our review that the plaintiff-in-error doused the decedent with kerosene and…