State v. Keele

OPINION

TATUM, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and of armed robbery. He was sentenced to serve life imprisonment on each conviction, and each sentence was ordered to be served consecutively.

The defendant says the trial court should have declared a mistrial because he says the state continued to introduce inadmissible evidence and because the jury saw him in shackles; says he was denied statements of a witness after making a motion for the statements in accordance with Rule 16(a) of Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure; says the court’s charge on the defendant…