State of Tennessee v. Marcus Dwayne Welcome

OPINION

D. KELLY THOMAS, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which THOMAS T. WOODALL, J., joined. JOSEPH M. TIPTON, P.J., filed a concurring opinion.

The defendant, Marcus Dwayne Welcome, appeals as of right his Knox County Criminal Court jury conviction for criminal responsibility for aggravated robbery for which he received a sentence of twenty years as a Range II, multiple offender. On appeal, he contends that double jeopardy precludes his conviction, that the verdict form incorrectly and prejudicially characterized criminal responsibility as a lesser included offense of aggravated…