State v. Hughes

OPINION

W. M. LEECH, Special Justice.

In this case the defendant, David Hughes, was tried and convicted in the Criminal Court for Blount County of selling marijuana in violation of T.C.A. § 52-1408 et seq. The jury sentenced the defendant to eleven months and twenty-nine days in the county jail and in addition thereto, he was fined three thousand dollars ($3,000.00). As a result of said sentence, defendant promptly perfected an appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals contending in part that error was made in the trial judge’s charge on the subject of punishment. In response to defendant’s…