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STATE v. HARRIS

989 S.W.2d 307 (1999)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Teresa Deion Smith HARRIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

April 12, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shipp Weems, District Public Defender, Charlotte, Steve West, West & West, (TRIAL ONLY), McKenzie, for appellant.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General & Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Peter M. Coughlan, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, G. Robert Radford, District Attorney General, for appellee.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

We granted this appeal to determine whether the constitutional harmless error analysis delineated in State v. Howell, 868 S.W.2d 238 (Tenn.1993), applies when a jury renders an incomplete verdict as to one of the two aggravating circumstances upon which a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is based.

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