Buchanan v. State

OPINION

McCanless, justice.

This is a post conviction case.

John H. Buchanan and two others were indicted at the January term, 1968, of the Criminal Court of Shelby County for the murder of one Rosalind Gaia. The first count charged that the defendants “did unlawfully, feloneously, wilfully, deliberately, premeditately and of their malice aforethought kill and murder Rosalind Gaia”; the other charged that they “did unlawfully feloneously, wilfully, maliciously, deliberately and premeditately kill and murder Rosalind Gaia in the perpetration of a robbery.”

The court granted a severance and…