Legal Opinion
State v. Flake
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided October 24, 2002No. W2000-01131-SC-R11-CDPublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J.,
delivered the opinion of the court,
in which JANICE M. HOLDER and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.
The defendant was charged with attempted first degree murder for shooting the victim, a pastoral counselor, at a church in Memphis, Tennessee. At trial, the facts surrounding the shooting and the defendant’s guilt were not contested. Instead, the defense sought to establish the affirmative defense of insanity. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-501. The jury found the defendant guilty of attempted voluntary manslaughter, and by this verdict, implicitly rejected the…
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