State v. Driver
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAUGHTREY, Judge.
Sherman Driver and Gilbert Ray “Cotton” Graves appeal from convictions for involuntary manslaughter and second degree murder, respectively. The jury fixed Driver’s punishment at not less than two nor more than five years imprisonment, and Graves’ at twenty-five years imprisonment. Both defendants challenge the sufficiency of the evidence and claim that the corpus delicti was insufficiently established to permit the introduction of various inculpatory statements. Graves also urges that the trial court erred in allowing the State to introduce photographs of the bones of…
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