State v. Burchfield

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

We granted Defendant’s Rule 11 application for permission to appeal in order to determine whether the trial court erred in denying the Defendant’s motion for a severance of two counts in the indictment, pursuant to Rule 14, Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure. Rule 14(b)(1), Tenn.R.Crim.P., reads as follows:

If two or more offenses have been joined or consolidated for trial pursuant to Rule 8(b), the defendant shall have a right to a severance of the offenses unless the offenses are part of a common scheme or plan and the evidence of one would be admissible upon the…