STATE OF TENNESSEE v. REX A. MARTIN - Articles

All Content

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. REX A. MARTIN

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jun 4, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Patrick T. McNally, Nashville, Tennessee (on appeal); Gerald L. Melton, District Public Defender; and Caleb B. McCain and Billie Zimmerman, Assistant District Public Defenders (at trial), for the appellant, Rex A. Martin.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Jennings H. Jones, District Attorney General; and Sarah N. Davis and John Westmoreland, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): DYER

The defendant, Rex A. Martin, was convicted by a Rutherford County Circuit Court jury of two counts of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated assault, assault, preventing another from making an emergency call, possession of a firearm while under a court order, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, for which he was sentenced to an effective term of fifteen years in the Department of Correction. On appeal, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence as to seven of his eight convictions - aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, assault, preventing another from making an emergency call, and possessing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. Following a thorough review of the record, the briefs, and oral arguments of the parties, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

Attachments: