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MATLOCK v. STATE

566 S.W.2d 892 (1978)

Lester MATLOCK, Appellant, v. STATE of Tennessee, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Certiorari Denied June 12, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Lee Newton, Robert C. Langston, Knoxville, for appellant.

Brooks McLemore, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert L. Jolley, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Ronald A. Webster, Dist. Atty. Gen., William H. Crabtree and John W. Gill, Asst. Dist. Attys. Gen., Knoxville, for appellee.

Certiorari Denied by Supreme Court June 12, 1978.

OPINION

RUSSELL, Judge.

This is an appeal by Lester Matlock from two convictions growing out of one trial. He was first convicted of the forcible rape of a certain young woman, and his sentence for that crime set at one hundred fifty years in the penitentiary; and, since he had tried to kill his victim after he had raped her (for the express purpose of preventing her from identifying him to the police...

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