STATE v. CAUTHERN


967 S.W.2d 726 (1998)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Ronnie Michael CAUTHERN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh R. Poland, Jr., Poland & Poland, Clarksville, Robert T. Bateman, Bateman, Bateman & Darnell, P.C., Clarksville, for Appellant.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor, John P. Cauley, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, for Appellee.

Clayburn Peeples, District Attorney General, Trenton, John Carney, District Attorney General, Steve Garrett, Assistant District Attorney, Clarksville (at Trial), for Appellee.


OPINION

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

This case is before the Court for automatic review of the Court of Criminal Appeals' affirmance of a conviction for first-degree murder and a sentence of death imposed upon the defendant, Ronnie M. Cauthern, in a Gibson County resentencing hearing.1 In addition to the death sentence imposed for the murder of Rosemary Smith, the jury returned a life sentence for the murder of Patrick Smith. In...

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