Bethel v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

The defendant, Steven Bethel, was convicted of two counts of attempted robbery, 1 two counts of robbery, 2 and four counts of attempted murder. 3 He was adjudicated a habitual offender. 4 As imposed, the re-suiting sentences aggregated to 120 years. In his appeal, the defendant challenges his convictions in Counts III and VIII, two of the four attempted murder convictions, alleging insufficiency of evidence and the erroneous giving of a jury instruction regarding use of a deadly weapon as evidence of intent to kill. In addition, he challenges the habitual offender…