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STATE v. STACY

601 S.W.2d 696 (1980)

STATE of Tennessee, Respondent, v. William Earl STACY, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

June 30, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter C. Kurtz, Richard McGee, Nashville, Martha Maeares, Knoxville, for petitioner.

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Michael J. Passino, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Ronald A. Webster, Dist. Atty. Gen., John W. Gill, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Knoxville, for respondent.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

Petitioner was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction. Although a number of assignments of error were made in the petition for certiorari to this Court, the petition was granted primarily to consider the sufficiency of the convicting evidence in light of petitioner's defense of lack of mental capacity.

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