State v. Hood

OPINION

TIPTON, Judge.

The defendant, David Clifton Hood, appeals as of right from his conviction in the Circuit Court of Weakley County for statutory rape, a Class E felony. The defendant was tried without a jury. He received a sentence of two years in the county jail with all but forty-five days suspended, the remainder to be served on supervised probation. He was fined five hundred dollars and ordered to receive counseling and complete one hundred hours of community service.

The issue presented on appeal is whether the trial court erred in finding that the defendant could not avail himself of…