State v. Brown

OPINION

in which WEDEMEYER, J., joined.

The Defendant, John D. Brown, appeals as of right from his McMinn County convictions for first degree murder and abuse of a corpse. On appeal, he raises nine issues: (1) whether the trial court failed to properly function as the thirteenth juror in considering the Defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal and a new trial; (2) whether the Honorable Steven Bebb erred by fading to recuse himself upon the grounds that under Tennessee Code Annotated section 17-1-305, only the Honorable Carroll Ross, the successor in office to the late Judge Mayo L.…