STATE v. NEWSOME


744 S.W.2d 911 (1987)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Vernon W. NEWSOME and Harden Jenkins, III, Appellants.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Nashville.

Permission to Appeal Denied December 28, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Al Cocke (At Trial), J. Paul Newman (On Appeal), Asst. Public Defenders, Nashville, for Newsome.

Owen B. Stratvert, Nashville, for Jenkins.

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, William Barry Wood, Asst. Atty. Gen., David Komisar, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellee.


Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court December 28, 1987.

OPINION

JAMES C. BEASLEY, Special Judge.

After an eight-day jury trial, Vernon W. Newsome and Harden Jenkins III were each convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon and three counts of aggravated rape. The trial judge assessed punishment as to each defendant at thirty-five (35) years for armed robbery and forty (40) years for each of the aggravated...

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