Legal Opinion
State v. Martin
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 30, 1985PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARBISON, Justice.
In a two-count indictment appellant was charged with murder in the first degree, the first count charging felony-murder during an attempted robbery and the second count charging deliberate, malicious, willful and premeditated homicide.
The jury acquitted appellant of the felony-murder charge but found him guilty on the second count of premeditated murder. At a separate sentencing hearing appellant was sentenced to death by electrocution.
Among several issues presented on appeal, appellant challenges legal sufficiency of the convicting evidence.
The victim of the homicide…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Francis v. FranklinSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- State v. DuncanTennessee Supreme Court · 1985
- State v. BuckTennessee Supreme Court · 1984
- Houston v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1980
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3Cited by61 opinions
- State v. HarrisTennessee Supreme Court · 1992
- Adkins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1995
- Robert Glen Coe, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Ricky Bell, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1999
- State v. BrownTennessee Supreme Court · 1992
- State v. BuggsTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
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