Johnson v. State

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The defendant-appellant, Jesse James Johnson, was indicted and tried on a charge of first degree murder. The jury found him guilty of that offense, and, having been erroneously instructed by the trial judge that the minimum penalty for first degree murder was twenty years, the jury set Johnson’s sentence at twenty years in the state penitentiary.

On appeal the defendant raises multiple assignments of error challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, the validity of the juvenile court’s transfer order which precipitated the indictment in this…