State of Tennessee v. Kenneth Ramsey

After a bench trial in Hamilton County, the appellant, Kenneth Ramsey, was convicted of speeding, simple assault and resisting arrest. As a result, the trial court sentenced the ¹ appellant to thirty days for speeding, six months for resisting arrest and eleven months and twenty-nine days for assault, with the sentences to run concurrently. The trial court suspended the effective eleven month, twenty-nine day sentence and placed the appellant on unsupervised probation. The appellant filed a timely notice of appeal. On appeal, the appellant presents the following issues: (1) whether the trial court erred by failing to allow the appellant to call a witness to testify on his behalf; (2) whether the trial court erred by failing to present a copy of the indictment to the appellant; (3) whether the trial court erred by denying a continuance because the appellant was not provided documents as required by law in a timely manner; (4) whether the trial court failed to provide equal access to the court by denying a continuance; and (5) whether the evidence was sufficient to support the convictions.  Because the judgment forms do not properly reflect that the appellant was found guilty after a bench trial, we remand the matter for entry of corrected judgment forms. In all other respects, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.