Mallicoat v. State

O’BRIEN, Judge.

OPINION

Defendant was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days in the Knox County Penal Farm.

Several assignments of error are made. The State calls to our attention that three of these assignments were not stated in defendant’s motion for new trial and, for that reason, may not be raised on appeal, under the authority of Pruitt v. State, 3 Tenn.Cr.App. 256, 460 S.W.2d 385. In exceptional circumstances, especially in criminal cases, appellate courts, in the public interest, may, of their own motion, notice errors…