State v. Eldridge

OPINION

RILEY, Judge.

This is a direct appeal from a jury verdict of guilty of attempted second degree murder. The defendant was sentenced as a standard offender to nine and one-half (9'/¿) years in the Tennessee Department of Correction and fined in the amount of $25,000. Defendant presents the following issues for our review:

1. whether the state’s failure to preserve a knife and failure to notify the defense of its disappearance violated defendant’s constitutional rights;

2. whether the trial court’s jury instruction on attempted second degree murder was erroneous due to the failure to include…