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Tennessee Supreme Court· 9/24/1990

State v. Boyd

Citations

  • 797 S.W.2d 589
  • 1990 Tenn. LEXIS 324

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  • holding that, in a first-degree murder prosecution, a trial court’s failure to instruct on voluntary manslaughter was not error where jury was instructed to consider second- degree murder but convicted of first-degree murder
  • concluding in first-degree murder case that where there was no evidence the killing was committed upon a sudden heat produce by adequate provocation, it was not error to fail to charge voluntary manslaughter
  • concluding in first-degree murder case that where there was no evidence the killing was committed upon a sudden heat produce by adequate provocation, it was not error to fail to charge voluntary manslaughter
  • finding that there was no “evidence supporting an involuntary manslaughter charge. As we previously noted, a pathologist testified that the death was caused by multiple gunshot wounds. There was a total of five or six shots to the victim’s body.”
  • Any possible error in failing to instruct voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, when second-degree murder was charged and the defendant was convicted of first-degree felony murder, was “completely harmless.”
  • Any possible error in failing to instruct voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, when second degree murder was charged and the defendant was convicted of first degree felony murder, was “completely harmless.”

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Judges: O'Brien, Drowota, Fones, Cooper, Harbison

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