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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ELIJAH GARRISON

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Dec 8, 2022

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Elijah Garrison (on appeal), Mountain City, Tennessee, Pro Se; Bede Anyanwu (at trial), Jackson, Tennessee; Lloyd R. Tatum (pretrial), Henderson, Tennessee; John McNeil, Claiborne Ferguson, Ramon Damas, Hayden Lawyer and Chloe Hawes (pretrial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Elijah Garrison.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Assistant Attorney General; Jody S. Pickens, District Attorney General; Bradley F. Champine, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MONTGOMERY

The Defendant, Elijah Garrison, was convicted by a Madison County Circuit Court jury of first degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm. T.C.A. §§ 39-13-202 (2018) (first degree murder); 39-17-1307(b)(1)(A) (2018) (unlawful carrying or possession of a weapon). The trial court imposed an effective sentence of life plus ten years’ confinement. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his first degree murder conviction because it was based on the uncorroborated testimony of accomplices. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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