Tucker v. State

Hill, Presiding Justice.

Juanita “Gail” Harden Tucker was convicted of the murder of John Henry “Horace” Butts and received a life sentence.

The state showed that the defendant and the victim were sitting in his car outside a local grocery and nightclub between eight and nine o’clock on December 7,1980, when the victim’s wife arrived and she told the defendant to get out of the car and leave her husband alone. The defendant went into the club and, after a brief argument, the victim and his wife followed her into the club. The wife knocked the defendant off a barstool, the women began to fight,…