STATE v. LIVINGSTON


907 S.W.2d 392 (1995)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellant, v. Jerrell C. LIVINGSTON. STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Steve BUNDY, Appellant. STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Johnny R. TILLEY, Appellant. STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. David JOHNSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

September 5, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Burson, Attorney General & Reporter, Merrilyn Feirman, C. Mark Fowler, Assistant Attorneys General, and Clinton J. Morgan, Special Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, for the State.

Michael E. Terry, Nashville, for Appellee Livingston.

Thomas Jay Norman, Nashville, for Appellant Bundy.

Richard W. DeBerry, Assistant District Public Defender, Camden, for Appellant Tilley.

Charles M. Corn, District Public Defender, Cleveland, for Appellant Johnson.


OPINION

CHARLES H. O'BRIEN, Special Justice and BIRCH, Justice.

We accepted the application for review filed pursuant to Rule 11, Tenn.R.App. P., in these four cases in order to determine whether the fresh-complaint doctrine recently modified in State v. Kendricks1 applies in cases wherein a child is the victim of abuse. For the reasons below appearing, we hold that the fresh-complaint doctrine does not apply in...

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