STATE v. THARPE


726 S.W.2d 896 (1987)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Alvin THARPE, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

March 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, William Barry Wood, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Thomas T. Woodall, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Paris, for appellant.

Alvin Tharpe, pro se.

Thomas F. Ventimiglia, Swayne, Groom, Hessing and Ventimiglia, Paris, for defendant-appellee.


OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

Permission to appeal has been granted in this case to clarify the law concerning whether circumstantial evidence, from which the jury could reasonably find that stolen goods had been received from a third person, is sufficient to convict a defendant. Defendant, Alvin Tharpe, was convicted by a Henry County jury of receiving stolen property under T.C.A. § 39-3-1113 (receiving stolen property with a value under $200); he was...

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