State v. Shelton

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of vehicular homicide in the Criminal Court of Rhea County and sentenced to serve ten (10) years in the penitentiary.

He was charged with the death of Norma Carol Jones which occurred on April 22, 1979 at approximately 08:30 p.m., on Toe String Road in rural Rhea County. The victim’s husband, Russell B. Jones, was driving his vehicle in a southerly direction when defendant, driving northwardly, passed a car traveling in the same direction, and collided head-on with the vehicle driven by Mr. Jones. Both Jones and his mother-in-law Mrs. Virginia…