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STATE v. WEST

844 S.W.2d 144 (1992)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. William WEST, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

November 23, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.H. Reneau, III, Celina, for appellant.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Merrilyn Feirman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tom P. Thompson, Dist. Atty. Gen. and John Wootten, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Hartsville, for appellee.

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Justice.

With the passage of the Appellate Courts Improvements Act of 1992, the jurisdiction of this Court has become almost completely discretionary.1 This means that as to noncapital criminal cases, we function primarily as a law-development court, rather than as an error-correction court. Occasionally, however, a criminal case comes to our attention in which the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the...

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