State of Tennessee v. William Langston

Syllabus

The Defendant-Appellant, William Langston, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of the second degree murder of his wife and received a twenty-year sentence. On appeal, Langston argues: (1) the trial court erred by denying his request to enter a guilty plea to a pending indictment charging him with voluntary manslaughter (2) the trial court abused its discretion when it accepted a police officer as an expert in the field of blood spatter analysis at trial (3) the instructions in his case precluded the jury from considering the offense of voluntary manslaughter (4) the evidence is insufficient to sustain his conviction and (5) his sentence is excessive. We affirm the judgment of the trial court but remand the case for entry of a corrected judgment reflecting the date that the second degree murder conviction was entered following sentencing.