State v. Joseph Manuel

• Court: Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
• Decided: March 26, 1998
• Docket: 02C01-9705-CC-00175
• Status: Published

Opinion

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE

AT JACKSON

MARCH 1998 SESSION FILED March 26, 1998 JOSEPH TROY MANUEL, ) Cecil Crowson, Jr. ) Appellate C ourt Clerk APPELLANT, ) ) No. 02-C-01-9705-CC-00175 ) ) Benton County v. ) ) Honorable Julian P. Guinn, Judge ) ) (Post-Conviction Relief) STATE OF TENNESSEE, ) ) APPELLEE. )

FOR THE APPELLANT: FOR THE APPELLEE:

Ronald E. Darby John Knox Walkup Attorney at Law Attorney General & Reporter P.O. Box 524 425 Fifth Avenue, North Camden, TN 38320 Nashville, TN 37243-0497

Georgia B. Felner Counsel for the State 425 Fifth Avenue, North Nashville, TN 37243-0493

Robert Gus Radford District Attorney General P.O. Box 686 Huntingdon, TN 38344

Victoria L. DiBonaventura Assistant District Attorney General P.O. Box 94 Paris, TN 38343

OPINION FILED:_____________________________

AFFIRMED PURSUANT TO RULE 20

Joe B. Jones, Presiding Judge OPINION

The appellant, Joseph Troy Manuel (petitioner), appeals as of right from a judgment

of the trial court dismissing his action for post-conviction relief. In this court, the defendant

contends “the reasonable doubt jury instruction given at the guilt phase of the Defendant’s

trial violate[d] the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States

Constitution and the law of the land, Article I, Section 8, Constitution of the State of

Tennessee.” After a thorough review of the record, the briefs submitted by the parties, and

the law governing the issue presented for review, it is the opinion of this court that the

judgment of the trial court should be affirmed pursuant to Rule 20, Tennessee Court of

Criminal Appeals.

The appellate courts of this State have upheld the use of a reasonable doubt

instruction like the instruction given in this case. State v. Nichols, 877 S.W.2d 722, 734

(Tenn. 1994), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1114, 115 S.Ct. 909, 130 L.Ed.2d 791 (1995);

Pettyjohn v State, 885 S.W.2d 364, 365-66 (Tenn. Crim. App.), per. app. denied (Tenn.

1994); State v. Hallock, 875 S.W.2d 285, 294 (Tenn. Crim. App.), per. app. denied, (Tenn.

1994); see Terry Shannon Kimery v. State, Greene County No. 03-C-01-9512-CC-00412,

1997 WL 31143, slip op. 2-5 (Tenn. Crim. App., Knoxville, January 28, 1997), per. app.

denied (Tenn. May 5, 1997).

____________________________________________ JOE B. JONES, PRESIDING JUDGE

CONCUR:

_______________________________________ GARY R. WADE, JUDGE

______________________________________ JERRY L. SMITH, JUDGE