Evans v. State

O’BRIEN, Judge.

OPINION

This is an appeal from a judgment in the Criminal Court of Knox County finding defendants guilty of murder in the first degree during perpetration of an armed robbery, and fixing their punishment at death by electrocution.

Evans has filed thirty-six assignments of error, Smith thirty-two. Most of the assignments for the separate defendants parallel in form and content. We first consider those filed individually by defendant, Evans, who complains that the trial court erred in denying a motion for severance.

A pre-trial motion for severance was overruled because no valid…