State v. Sims
Tennessee Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · HolderJanice M. Holder, J.
in which E. RILEY ANDERSON, C.J., and FRANK F. DROWOTA, III and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.
Vincent Sims was convicted of especially aggravated burglary and first degree premeditated murder in the shooting death of Forrest Smith. Sims was sentenced to twenty years on the especially aggravated burglary conviction and was sentenced to death for the first degree murder conviction. The sentences were ordered to run consecutively. On direct appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Sims’s convictions and sentences. We entered an order designating the following issues for oral…
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