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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. TONY CHARLES DAVENPORT

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 4, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joseph T. Wyatt (at trial and on appeal) and Jeffrey A. Vires (at trial), Crossville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Tony Charles Davenport.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Assistant Attorney General; Bryant C. Dunaway, District Attorney General; and Philip Hatch and Allison Null, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): SWORD

The Defendant, Tony Charles Davenport, was convicted by a Cumberland County jury of reckless homicide, attempted second degree murder, and attempted voluntary manslaughter, for which he received an effective sentence of twenty-five years’ incarceration to be served as a Range II, multiple offender. On appeal, the Defendant claims that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions of attempted second degree murder and attempted voluntary manslaughter and that the trial court erred in imposing consecutive sentencing. The State responds that the Defendant’s appeal is untimely and should be dismissed. Because we conclude that the Defendant’s notice of appeal was untimely filed and that the interests of justice do not merit waiver of the untimeliness, we dismiss the appeal.

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