STATE v. SCOTT


653 S.W.2d 406 (1983)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Ralph Lee SCOTT and Clarence Eugene Cook, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

June 27, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles B. Hill, Kingston, J. Scott McCluen, Harriman, for appellees.

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., J. Andrew Hoyal, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellant.


OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

The issue before this Court is whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in holding that the trial judge abused his discretion in denying defendants' petitions for the suspension of their sentences.

Defendants Scott and Cook, both nineteen years of age, were arrested in January, 1981, on charges of burglary, larceny, and concealing stolen property from the home of the victim Fred Silvey. The trial judge accepted and...

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