State of Tennessee v. Garland Godsey

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE Assigned on Briefs July 25, 2001 STATE OF TENNESSEE v. GARLAND GODSEY Appeal from the Criminal Court for Cumberland County No. 4969 Leon C. Burns, Jr., Judge No. E2000-01944-CCA-R3-CD December 4, 2001 The defendant was tried and convicted of second degree murder in the Cumberland County Criminal Court in connection with an aggravated assault of a bar patron who died approximately one month later. The trial court sentenced the defendant as a violent offender to 25 years incarceration in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On…