State of Tennessee v. Terrance Antonio Cecil

M2011-01210-SC-R11-CD
Date / Time
Wed, 05/29/2013 - 08:30 AM
ORAL ARGUMENTS DESCRIPTION

SCALES Argument - Boys' State - Cookeville

A Maury County jury convicted the Defendant, Terrance Antonio Cecil, of assault and false imprisonment, both Class A misdemeanors. The trial court sentenced the Defendant to concurrent sentences of six months incarceration, with all but sixty days on each suspended, followed by ten months on probation. On appeal, the Defendant contends: (1) the evidence is insufficient to sustain his convictions; (2) the trial court erred when it considered his prior arrest record in sentencing; and (3) the trial court committed plain error by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser-included offenses of attempted false imprisonment and attempted assault. After a thorough review of the record and relevant authorities, we affirm the trial court’s judgments.

Court
Supreme Court
County
Maury
Division
Eastern Section