Mays v. State

The plaintiff in error, Maurice Mays, was convicted in the court below for the murder of Mrs. Bertie Lindsay, and was sentenced by the jury to suffer death by electrocution.

*123A motion for a new trial was overruled, and the plaintiff in error has appealed to this court and has assigned errors.

The material facts of the hilling lie within a narrow compass. On the night of August 29, 1919, an intruder entered the house of Mrs. Lindsay on Eighth avenue near Gillespie avenue in the city of Knoxville, and shot her to death. She was in bed with her cousin, Miss Ora Smith, who has since married a man by…