Eager v. State

325 S.W.2d 815 (1959)

Beverly Ann EAGER and Howard Eugene Hill

v.

STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 12, 1959.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1959.

Ray W. Churchill and Lonnie E. Henderson, Memphis, for plaintiffs in error.

James M. Glasgow, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

BURNETT, Justice.

The plaintiffs in error were jointly indicted for the second degree murder of Donald McQuistan with an automobile on January 18, 1958. They were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and their punishment was fixed at not more than five years in the State Penitentiary. Appeals have been seasonably…