State v. Hill

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

The appellant appeals his conviction in the Circuit Court for Rutherford County for committing the offense of murder in the second degree. The jury assessed his punishment at confinement for life.

The appellant has filed twenty-one assignments of error attacking the validity of his conviction. Since his third assignment questions the sufficiency of the evidence, we shall capsulize the evidence adduced in this protracted and tedious trial.

The remains of the decedent, Bonnie Russell, a female white aged 39 were found on February 11, 1977, in a sinkhole in a remote area near…