STALLARD v. STATE


348 S.W.2d 489 (1961)

Karl STALLARD, Robert Reece Bennett and Bernie Green v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

July 26, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Warren, Jr., Bristol, Va., Street, Banks & Merryman, Elizabethton, Thomas E. Mitchell, Johnson City, for Karl Stallard and Bernie Green.

Dan M. Laws, Jr., Elizabethton, for Robert Reece Bennett.

Walker T. Tipton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

Stallard was convicted of murder in the second degree. Bennett and Green were convicted as aiders and abettors. Each was sentenced to a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Each has appealed.

On the night of this homicide Stallard and two college boys started on a pleasure ride in the automobile owned and being driven by Stallard. In the course of the evening they were joined at one of the places where they stopped by Green. He was intoxicated...

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