Tomlin v. State

Defendants below, James K. Tomlin, John Leslie Reed, and John Wesley Reed, were, jointly indicted, tried, and convicted of robbery accomplished by use of a deadly weapon, and each was sentenced to serve 21 years and one day in the State Penitentiary. They have appealed in error and have separately assigned errors.

Evidence for the State was that J. W. Coffey and his wife, Hattie Coffey, lived in a rural neighborhood in Marshall County Tennessee. He was a farmer and they had in their home a safe in which they regularly kept large sums of money. The amount in the safe on the day of the robbery,…