Tennessee Supreme Court· 7/27/2000

Wyatt v. State

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24 S.W.3d 319
2000 Tenn. LEXIS 431
2000 WL 1029528

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holding that an indictment serves several purposes, one of which is to provide the accused with notice of the offense charged
holding that unless an indictment is so defective as to fail to vest jurisdiction, challenges to an indictment must be raised prior to trial, citing Tenn. R. Crim. P. 12(b)(2)(B)
holding that an indictment charging attempt was sufficient where it cited the proper statute but neither referred to the attempt statute’s numbered subsections nor specified a course of conduct establishing the attempt to kill
holding that an indictment alleging that the defendant “did . . . attempt to kill” was sufficient to (1) allege an overt act as required by the criminal attempt statute, (2) notify the defendant of the accused crime, (3) confer jurisdiction on the trial court, and (4
noting that “[t]he indictment makes no reference to the attempt statute’s numbered subsections nor does it specify a specific act or course of conduct constituting the ‘attempt to kill’” and holding that the indictment was sufficient
setting out the only two elements of criminal attempt as the requisite intent and an act in furtherance of the crime

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Judges: Justice E. Riley Anderson

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