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STATE v. SPAWR

653 S.W.2d 404 (1983)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. William James SPAWR, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

June 27, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Dice, Turner, Dice & Ferguson, April Rose Wyss Ferguson, Turner, Dice & Ferguson, Memphis, for appellant.

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Rhona J. Cartwright, Gordon W. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellee.

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

Defendant was indicted for assault with intent to commit first degree murder and pled guilty to an attempt to commit that offense. In December 1980, he was sentenced to not less than nor more than one year in the penitentiary, to be served at the Shelby County Penal Farm.

In January 1981, his petition for a suspended sentence was denied by the trial judge, on the ground of the seriousness of the offense and "to act as...

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