King v. State

OPINION

BARKER, J.

We granted this post-conviction appeal to review the appellant’s conviction of felony-murder and the sentence of death based, in part, on the felony murder aggravating circumstance. The appellant requests this Court to clarify the Howell harmless error analysis used in State v. Hines, 919 S.W.2d 573, 583-84 (Tenn.1995), and to address whether the Howell analysis requires a comprehensive review of cumulative errors in the record. The appellant also alleges ineffective assistance of counsel and contends that his case should have been severed from his co-defendant’s under Cruz…