Tennessee Supreme Court· 9/21/1998

State v. Williams

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977 S.W.2d 101
1998 Tenn. LEXIS 512
1998 WL 640915

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concluding that in modern jurisprudence, the presumption is that harmless error analysis should be applied to instruction on lesser offenses
holding that trial court’s failure to charge voluntary manslaughter was “harmless beyond a reasonable doubt” when the jury convicted defendant of first degree murder and rejected second degree murder
recognizing attempted voluntary manslaughter as lesser included offense of attempted murder; offense requires intent to kill
noting that second degree murder is the immediate lesser -4- included offense of first degree murder
holding a guilty verdict on first degree murder and rejection of second degree murder renders the failure to charge voluntary manslaughter harmless beyond a reasonable doubt
noting that “by finding the defendant guilty of the highest offense to the exclusion of the immediately lesser offense, second[-]degree murder, the jury necessarily rejected all other lesser offenses”

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Judges: Anderson, Holder, Birch, Reid

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