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STATE v. MORRIS

24 S.W.3d 788 (2000)

STATE of Tennessee v. Farris Genner MORRIS, Jr.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

July 10, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Morton Googe, District Public Defender, Jackson, Tennessee, (On Appeal and At Trial), and Daniel J. Taylor, Assistant Public Defender, and Jesse H. Ford, III, Jackson, Tennessee, (At Trial), for the appellant, Farris Genner Morris, Jr.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter and Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General and Elizabeth T. Ryan, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee (On Appeal), and James G. (Jerry) Woodall, District Attorney General, and Al Earls, Assistant District Attorney General, Jackson, Tennessee (At Trial), for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION

ANDERSON, C. J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which BIRCH, HOLDER and BARKER, J.J., joined.

A jury convicted the defendant of two counts of premeditated first degree murder and one count of aggravated rape. The jury imposed the death penalty for one of the first degree murders after finding that evidence of two aggravating circumstances—that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious...

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