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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs July 10, 2007

STATE OF TENNESSEE v.
HENRY COOPER and LAWRENCE M. WALKER

Direct Appeal from the Criminal Court for Shelby County
No. 04-07895 Joseph B. Dailey, Judge

No. W2006-02482-CCA-R3-CD  - Filed January 16, 2008
Co-defendants, Henry Cooper and Lawrence M. Walker, were indicted on one count of attempted first degree premeditated murder and two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping.  Following a jury trial, co-defendants were convicted of attempted second degree murder, a Class B felony, and were found not guilty of especially aggravated kidnapping.  Following a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced Defendant Cooper as a Range I, standard offender, to twelve years, and Defendant Walker, as a Range I, standard offender, to eleven years. On appeal, each Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence, and Defendant Cooper challenges the length of his sentence. Defendant Walker does not challenge his sentence on appeal. After a thorough review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgments of the Criminal Court Affirmed
THOM AS T. WOODALL, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DAVID G. HAYES and NORMA MCGEE OGLE, JJ., joined.
Coleman W. Garrett, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Henry Cooper; Robert Wilson Jones, District Public Defender; Jennifer Johnson, Assistant Public Defender; and Garland Erg

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