State v. Gilley

OPINION

E. RILEY ANDERSON, J„

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which PRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., and ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ„ joined.

We granted review of this interlocutory appeal to address the admissibility of prior acts of physical abuse committed by the defendant against the victim and others under Rule 404(b) of the Tennessee Rules of Evidence. The trial court ruled prior to trial that the State’s evidence of the defendant’s prior acts was admissible in part and inadmissible in part. After granting an interlocutory appeal as requested by…