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KING v. STATE

992 S.W.2d 946 (1999)

Tommy L. KING, Defendant/Appellant, v. STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff/Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

June 7, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Runde, Assistant Public Defender, Pulaski, Robert D. Massey, Co-Counsel, Pulaski, for Appellant.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, John P. Cauley, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, for Appellee.

OPINION

HOLDER, J.

In this post-conviction capital case, we granted this appeal to determine whether the jury's reliance on an invalid felony murder aggravating circumstance was harmless error. Upon review, we hold that the jury's consideration of the invalid felony murder aggravating circumstance was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt due to the strength of the remaining valid aggravating circumstances and the relative weakness or absence of any mitigating...

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