State of Tennessee v. Takeita M. Locke

OPINION

WILLIAM M. BARKER, J„

delivered the opinion of the court, the panel of which

consisted of FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., and E. RILEY ANDERSON, ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, Jr., and JANICE M. HOLDER, JJ.

The defendant, Takeita M. Locke, was tried and convicted in the Knox County Criminal Court of felony murder and especially aggravated robbery in the death of Chuck Newman. The Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously affirmed both convictions. We granted this appeal to deter mine if the trial court committed reversible error by failing to instruct the jury on certain lesser-included offenses of felony…