STATE v. COOK


696 S.W.2d 6 (1985)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Phillip Kevin COOK, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

August 12, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Himmelreich, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville (W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Nashville, of counsel), for appellant.

Gary Mason Jones, Sr. Asst. Public Defender, Nashville, for appellee.


OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of being an habitual criminal. He received two consecutive life sentences. The Court of Criminal Appeals, with one judge dissenting, reversed the habitual criminal convictions, finding that two of the three predicate convictions relied upon by the State were for offenses committed at the same time and on the same occasion and thus constituted only one conviction...

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