Powers v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted in the circuit court of McMinn county for the murder of one Elbert Watten-barger, was convicted of murder in the first degree, and ivas sentenced to confinement in the State penitentiary *367for the term of his natural life. From this judgment he has appealed, and has here assigned errors.

The plaintiff in error at the time of the homicide was a hoy of between fifteen and sixteen years of age and attended the school oyer which Mr. Wattenbarger presided. The afternoon before the homicide plaintiff in error and another student, Charlie Stanton, a little boy…