STATE OF TENNESSEE v. KELLEY IRENE ENGEL GAMBILL - Articles

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Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 19, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Nathan Cate, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Kelley Irene Engel Gambill.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Park Huff, Assistant Attorney General; Glenn R. Funk, District Attorney General; and Deborah Housel, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): SWORD

The Defendant, Kelley Gambill, appeals her Davidson County Criminal Court conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals, for which she received a sentence of two years’ supervised probation. On appeal, the Defendant argues that the trial court misconstrued the statute's “no justifiable purpose” language and challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting her conviction. Discerning no error, we affirm.

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