Recor v. State

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

Alfred William Recor chose to plead guilty when he and his wife were brought to trial for the brutal murder of a neighbor girl in Chattanooga. Apparently what started out as a joint trial was converted by his announced intention to plead guilty into a trial of his wife. Recor was sent from the courtroom under the rule, because his wife’s attorney indicated that he planned to use him as a witness. At the conclusion of the wife’s trial, wherein she was found guilty of second degree murder, Recor was brought back into the courtroom. The jury which had just found his wife…