Legal Opinion
Tooley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided September 8, 1969PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WALKER, Presiding Judge.
The defendant below, Willard Rex Tooley, appeals from his conviction of murder in the first degree in the Criminal Court of Shelby County and sentenced to 99 years in the penitentiary.
On the night of October 25, 1967, the defendant, 31 years of age, visited the V.I.P. Lounge, a bar in the Frayser area of North Memphis, where he met the deceased, Mrs. Edna Earl Scallions, aged 50. They drank beer there and at Ray’s Lounge until a short time after midnight. He was not drunk, but he says he had a headache and she gave him a capsule to reheve it.
They left Ray’s…
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