STATE v. KENDRICK


10 S.W.3d 650 (1999)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Kenneth Lee KENDRICK, Appellant.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

September 10, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry L. Jordan, Assistant Public Defender, Blountville, TN, for Appellant.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, and Clinton J. Morgan, Counsel for the State, Nashville, TN, for Appellee.

Joseph Eugene Perrin, Assistant District Attorney General, Blountville, TN, for Appellee.


No Permission to Appeal Applied for to the Supreme Court.

OPINION

WADE, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Kenneth Lee Kendrick, was convicted in a bench trial of knowingly taking marijuana into a penal institution. Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-16-201. The trial court imposed a Range I sentence of four years.

In this appeal of right, the defendant contends that a community corrections facility does not qualify as a penal institution and...

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