State of Tennessee v. Adrian Porterfield

The defendant, Adrian Porterfield, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of voluntary
manslaughter, a Class C felony, and was sentenced to serve four years and six months in the county workhouse as a Range I, standard offender. On appeal, the defendant challenges the trial court’s judgment on grounds that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction; (2) the trial erred in admitting a hearsay statement by the victim; (4) the trial court erred in not allowing evidence of drugs found on the victim’s body; (5) the trial court erred in not allowing testimony of a statement the victim made to police regarding his involvement in a robbery of the defendant; (6) the trial court erred in denying alternative sentencing; and (7) the length of his sentence is excessive. We affirm the trial court but remand the case for a corrected judgment because the sentence imposed in the judgment conflicts with the sentence reflected in the sentencing hearing transcript.