STATE v. BLAIR


634 S.W.2d 627 (1982)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Nathaniel BLAIR, Appellant.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

January 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Jolley, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Kenneth Miller, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Cleveland, for appellee.

R. Jerome Shepherd, Cleveland, for appellant.


OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The charges in this case arose from an act of forced sodomy allegedly committed by defendant Nathaniel Blair against his fellow jail inmate, David Duggan. The defendant did not testify, but the theory of the defense was that no attack occurred on the night in question. To support this theory, the defendant produced the testimony of several other prisoners incarcerated in the same cell block as Blair and Duggan. The jury nevertheless...

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