Aggravated arson
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case State v. Lewis (1997)
Most recently applied in United States v. Carlos Fallins (September 2017)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1997, ch. 284, § 2; 2005, ch. 353, § 15.
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) A person commits aggravated arson who commits arson as defined in § 39-14-301 or § 39-14-303: When one (1) or more persons are present therein; or
(2) When any person, including firefighters and law enforcement officials, suffers serious bodily injury as a result of the fire or explosion.
(3) Aggravated arson 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.