Especially aggravated burglary
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State v. Watkins (2012)
Most recently applied in State of Tennessee v. Antonio Henderson (October 2017)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1990, ch. 1030, § 24.
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 burglary is: Burglary of a habitation or building other than a habitation; and
(2) Where the victim suffers serious bodily injury.
(3) For the purposes of this section, “victim” means any person lawfully on the premises.
(4) Especially aggravated burglary is a Class B felony.
(5) Acts which constitute an offense under this section may be prosecuted under this section or any other applicable section, but not both.
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.