4 Tenn. Crim. App. 682 - Ervin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““There is evidence in this record that Ervin: (1) learned of his ex-wife’s boy friend a week before the encounter; (2) got his rifle out of pawn; (3) left the car and went onto his ex-wife’s premises with the rifle loaded; (4) gave his friend instructions to park defendant’s car some blocks away from the house; and (5) waited in the back yard until deceased drove up and then went to the front and shot deceased when he started out the door. We are disposed to state that these factual events connote defendant was lying in wait, which would be of a sufficiency in itself to support a first degree murder conviction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Laird v. Lack