(1) Especially aggravated robbery is robbery as defined in § 39-13-401: Accomplished with a deadly weapon; and
(2) Where the victim suffers serious bodily injury.
(3) Especially aggravated robbery is a Class A felony.
Especially aggravated robbery
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case State v. Flemming (2000)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Antonio Henderson (October 2017)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Especially aggravated robbery is robbery as defined in § 39-13-401: Accomplished with a deadly weapon; and
(2) Where the victim suffers serious bodily injury.
(3) Especially aggravated robbery is a Class A felony.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.