State of Tennessee v. Rodney Porter

A Knox County Criminal Court jury convicted the defendant, Rodney Porter, of felony murder in the perpetration of aggravated child abuse, see T.C.A. § 39-13-202(a)(2) (2006), and aggravated child abuse, see id. § 39-15-402(a)(1). The trial court imposed an effective sentence of life plus 25 years’ incarceration. In this appeal, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and the sentence imposed for his aggravated child abuse conviction. Discerning no error, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.