Tennessee Supreme Court· 4/25/2001

Terry v. State

Citations

46 S.W.3d 147
2001 Tenn. LEXIS 370
2001 WL 420521

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stating that “any dismemberment of a corpse can establish depravity of mind if the acts can be considered incident to the murder and not separate, distinct or independent from it” (citation modified)
affirming death sentence where defendant severed the victim=s head and hand
noting, under a prior version of the statute, that “the time factor merely assists in directly relating the post-mortem mutilation to the commission of the murder, thereby establishing the defendant’s depravity of mind at the time of the murder”
minister who had no prior criminal record concocted a scheme to disappear and change his identity; shot and killed church handyman
“We do not require that the desire to avoid arrest or prosecution be the sole motive for killing the victim. Instead, such a desire need only be one of the purposes motivating the defendant to kill.”

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Judges: Justice William M. Barker

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