Legal Opinion

State v. Schafer

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee

Decided December 9, 1997PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

PEAY, Judge.

The defendant was indicted for first-degree premeditated murder. After a jury trial, he was convicted of that offense and sentenced to life imprisonment. He now appeals, raising the following issues:

1. The sufficiency of the evidence;

2. Whether the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a photograph of the victim;

3. Whether the trial court erred in allowing a lay witness to testify about her opinion of the defendant and his actions;

4. Whether the trial court erred in its treatment of one of the State’s witnesses, thereby causing the witness to change his testimony to…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. State v. CabbageTennessee Supreme Court · 1978
  3. State v. GraceTennessee Supreme Court · 1973
  4. State v. BrownTennessee Supreme Court · 1992
  5. State v. BanksTennessee Supreme Court · 1978

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. State v. DellingerTennessee Supreme Court · 2002
  2. Paul Gregory House v. Ricky Bell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2002
  3. Paul Gregory House v. Ricky Bell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2002
  4. Miller v. GenoveseDistrict Court, W.D. Tennessee · 2019
  5. Patrick Trawick v. State of TennesseeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2015

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