Stoots v. State

325 S.W.2d 532 (1959)

Vernon STOOTS

v.

STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 5, 1959.

John W. Norris, Brownsville, for plaintiff in error.

James M. Glasgow, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

BURNETT, Justice.

Stoots was convicted of involuntary manslaughter of Pearlie Mae Harris, a Negro woman, and was sentenced to serve eight months in the county workhouse. He has seasonably appealed, assigned errors, filed briefs and arguments have been heard. We now have the matter for determination.

The jury had ample material evidence to find a state of facts from which to base this…