State of Tennessee v. Mikel U. Primm

A Dickson County jury convicted the defendant, Mikel U. Primm, of possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to appear. The trial court sentenced the defendant to serve eleven months and twenty-nine days for his possession of drug paraphernalia conviction and two years for failure to appear conviction, for which he was classified as a Range II multiple offender. The trial court ordered the defendant to serve these sentences concurrently. The defendant now brings this direct appeal challenging his convictions and his sentence, alleging that (1) the evidence introduced at trial is insufficient to support his two convictions, (2) the trial court erroneously denied, within the hearing of the prospective jurors, the defense motion for a continuance, and (3) that the trial court improperly sentenced him by failing to apply several relevant mitigating factors. After a thorough review of the record, we find that none of the defendant's allegations merit relief and therefore affirm the judgments of the trial court.