STATE v. PHIPPS


883 S.W.2d 138 (1994)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. David Willard PHIPPS, Jr., Appellant.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Jackson.

May 11, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel R. Barrett, Jr. and John G. Oliva, Nashville, for appellee.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Rebecca L. Gundt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, G. Robert Radford, Dist. Atty. Gen. and Vicki S. Snyder, Asst. Atty. Gen., Huntingdon, for appellee.


Permission to Appeal Applied for to the Supreme Court.

OPINION

WHITE, Judge.

Appellant, David Willard Phipps, Jr., appeals as of right from his conviction for the first-degree murder of Michael Presson. The state did not seek the death penalty in this case, and Phipps was sentenced to life in prison.

Appellant raises four issues on appeal:

1. Whether the trial court's comment and refusal to charge the jury on post-traumatic stress...

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