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Timothy R. Powell vs. State of Tennessee

01C01-9708-CR-00379

The Defendant, Timothy R. Powell, appeals as of right from the order of the trial court summarily dismissing his second petition for post-conviction relief. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Authoring Judge: Judge David H. Welles
Originating Judge:Judge Frank G. Clement
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 10/06/98
State of Tennessee vs. Cecil Eugene McGuire

03C01-9705-CC-00191

The Sevier County Grand Jury indicted sixteen-year old Cecil Eugene McGuire for aggravated rape, aggravated sexual battery, and aggravated burglary. After a trial, the jury acquitted the defendant of aggravated rape and aggravated burglary but found him guilty of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated criminal trespass, a lesser grade offense of aggravated burglary. The trial court sentenced him to serve eleven years in the custody of the Department of Correction as a Range I, standard offender for the Class B felony, concurrently with eleven months and twenty-nine days for the Class A misdemeanor. Pursuant to Rule 3 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, the defendant presents the following issues:


1. Whether the indictments are fatally defective and thereby deprive the trial court of jurisdiction in this case.
2. Whether the evidence as a matter of law was insufficient to support the convictions.
3. Whether the trial court improperly credited and weighed the enhancement factors and imposed an excessive sentence.

After a careful review of the record and the applicable law, we find no error warranting reversal of the defendant’s convictions. We affirm the convictions, but for reasons explained below, we modify the felony sentence from eleven years to ten years.

Authoring Judge: Judge Curwood Witt
Originating Judge:Judge Rex Henry Ogle
Sevier County Court of Criminal Appeals 10/02/98
State vs. Delbert Harris

01C01-9705-CC-00177

Originating Judge:Robert E. Burch
Dickson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
David Gibson vs. State

01C01-9710-CC-00473

Originating Judge:W. Charles Lee
Bedford County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. Demario Hill aka David Weathers

01C01-9707-CC-00444

Originating Judge:Robert E. Burch
Dickson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. Donald Wallace

01C01-9711-CC-00526

Originating Judge:Leonard W. Martin
Stewart County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. William Mack Gross

E2000-00039-CCA-R3-CD
Authoring Judge: Judge Thomas T. Woodall
Originating Judge:Douglas A. Meyer
Hamilton County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
Larry T. Carter vs. State

01C01-9710-CR-00488
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. William Bradley

01C01-9708-CR-00336
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. AAA Aaron's Action Agency Bail Bond, Inc.

01C01-9710-CR-00462

Originating Judge:Seth W. Norman
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. William Clements

01C01-9707-CC-00247
Hickman County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
Terry Hall vs. State

01C01-9710-CC-00448
Cheatham County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. Joseph Stinnett

01C01-9707-CC-00288

Originating Judge:James K. Clayton, Jr.
Rutherford County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
James Newsome vs. State

01C01-9710-CR-00459

Originating Judge:Thomas H. Shriver
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. Floyd Smith, II

01C01-9711-CR-00511
Wilson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/30/98
State vs. Helen Cumberbatch

E2000-00047-CCA-R3-CD
The Defendant appeals as of right from the trial court's revocation of her community corrections sentence. She argues that the trial court erred in revoking her community corrections sentence based on unreliable, undocumented hearsay evidence that she had failed a drug screen. The State asserts that the Defendant has waived appellate review of the admission of the hearsay evidence because she failed to object at the hearing. We hold that the trial judge properly considered the hearsay evidence, and she did not abuse her discretion in revoking community corrections because the evidence was sufficient to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the Defendant had violated the conditions of community corrections by using cocaine. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the trial court revoking the Defendant's community corrections sentence.
Authoring Judge: Judge David H. Welles
Originating Judge:Rebecca J. Stern
Hamilton County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
State vs. Jerry Huskins

01C01-9707-CR-00253

Originating Judge:John A. Turnbull
Putnam County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
State vs. Gerald Lovelace

01C01-9708-CC-00338

Originating Judge:Robert W. Wedemeyer
Montgomery County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
State vs. Gerald Lovelace

01C01-9708-CC-00338

Originating Judge:Cheryl A. Blackburn
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
01C01-9701-CC-00549

01C01-9701-CC-00549

Originating Judge:John H. Gasaway, III
Robertson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
Carl Jordan vs. State

01C01-9711-CR-00528
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
State vs. Michael Taylor

01C01-9708-CR-00367

Originating Judge:J. Randall Wyatt, Jr.
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
01C01-9709-CC-00414

01C01-9709-CC-00414
Robertson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
State vs. Aaron Cooper

01C01-9708-CR-00368

Originating Judge:Thomas H. Shriver
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98
Juan Walker vs. State

01C01-9708-CR-00371

Originating Judge:Thomas H. Shriver
Court of Criminal Appeals 09/29/98