Legal Opinion
State v. Spratt
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided June 8, 2000No. W1999-00611-CCA-R3-CDPublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WOODALL, Judge.
Defendant Jimmie C. Spratt was convicted of aggravated rape by a jury in the Shelby County Criminal Court. Defendant was subsequently sentenced to a term of twenty-five years in the Tennessee Department of Correction. Defendant challenges his conviction and his sentence, raising the following issues: (1) whether the trial court erred when it ruled that he improperly struck potential jurors based on the jurors’ race; (2) whether the trial court should have dismissed the charges against him because there was an unnecessarily long delay between his arrest and his appearance…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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