State v. Seagraves

I cannot agree with the majority’s reversal of this conviction, based on the tenets of Rule 12(b)(2) of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, other established precedents of law, and lastly, the fact that any error at all here was unassigned. In Johnson v. U.S., 318 U.S. 189, 63 S.Ct. 549, 87 *622L.Ed. 704 (1943), the following language may be found:

To turn a criminal appeal into a quest for error no more promotes the ends of justice than to acquiesce in low standards of criminal prosecution.

Id., 318 U.S. at 202, 63 S.Ct. at 555 (Frankfurter, J. concurring).

After the parties had submitted…