Legal Opinion

State v. Cook

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided August 12, 1985PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of being an habitual criminal. He received two consecutive life sentences. The Court of Criminal Appeals, with one judge dissenting, reversed the habitual criminal convictions, finding that two of the three predicate convictions relied upon by the State were for offenses committed at the same time and on the same occasion and thus constituted only one conviction under the habitual criminal statute. We granted the application of the State for permission to appeal the re*7versal of the habitual criminal…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People v. ReederCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1984
  2. Frazier v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1972
  3. McMath v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1976
  4. Clayborne v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1980

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. State v. MooreCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1988
  2. State v. WoodallTennessee Supreme Court · 1987
  3. State v. KilbyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1988
  4. Billy Jackson Coffelt v. State of Tennessee and Jerry Lester, WardenCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2013
  5. Jimmy Wayne Wilson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1999

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