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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JESSE WAYNE CRADDOCK

Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Apr 16, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: G. Frank Lannom and Tyler Stanfield, Lebanon, Tennessee (on appeal); and Adam W. Parrish and Donna Wagner, Mount Juliet, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Jesse Wayne Craddock.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; William C. Lundy, Assistant Attorney General; Jason L. Lawson, District Attorney General; and Justin G. Harris and Thomas H. Swink, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WILSON

Defendant, Jesse Wayne Craddock, appeals his Wilson County Criminal Court jury convictions of felony murder and aggravated child neglect, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to support those convictions, that the statute proscribing aggravated child neglect is unconstitutionally vague, that the trial court erred by denying his motion to suppress evidence seized from his person, that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on intoxication, and that the imposition of a life sentence for his conviction of felony murder in the perpetration of aggravated child neglect amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Discerning no error, we affirm.

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