State v. Kimbrough

OPINION

BIRCH, Justice.

We review this cause in order to address an issue of first impression: whether attempt to commit felony-murder exists as an offense in Tennessee. We conclude that it does not and affirm the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals reversing the appellee’s conviction.

I

Terry Lewis and his brother, Jimmy Lewis, conducted a rather extensive marijuana-selling operation in their Memphis residence. On April 13, 1991, after the brothers had “serviced” approximately forty marijuana “customers,” Brian Keith Kimbrough, the defendant-appellee, and two male associates went to the…