May v. State

Mu. Justice Creson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court; that is, plaintiff in error John Bennett May as defendant and defendant in error as the State.

This appeal comes from the Criminal Court of Davidson County. The defendant was indicted for murder in the first degree. After an extensive trial, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, on March 3, 1967. At the time of the homicide, both the defendant and the deceased, Hugh Lee Bunch, were inmates of the State Penitentiary at Nashville, and occupied the same cell. .

On May 9,…