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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs May 8, 2001 STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JAMES L. ROBERSON, aka JAMES ROBINSON, aka "BLOOKIE"
Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Lauderdale County No. 6921 Joseph H. Walker, III, Judge

No. W2000-02591-CCA-R3-CD - Filed June 4, 2001

The defendant, James L. Roberson, was charged with attempted second degree murder for the repeated stabbing of a female acquaintance and was convicted of the offense, following a bench trial. He testified that he was under the influence of drugs at the time of the offense and could not remember what had happened. He appealed the conviction, arguing that, as the result of his mental state, the proof was insufficient to sustain the conviction. We affirm the judgment of the trial court. Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed ALAN E. GLENN, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which L. TERRY LAFFERTY, SR.J., joined. DAVID H. WELLES, J., not participating. Gary F. Antrican, District Public Defender; Clifford K. McGown, Jr., Assistant District Public Defender (on appeal only); and Julie K. Pillow, Assistant District Public Defender, for the appellant, James L. Roberson. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Peter M. Coughlan, Assistant Attorney General; Elizabeth T. Rice, District Attorney General; and Tracey A. Brewer, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee. OPINION The defendant was convicted following a bench trial of attempted second degree murder, as the result of multiple stab wounds to the victim, who was a female acquaintance. He was sentenced as a Range II, multiple offender to fourteen years in the Department of Correction. He appealed the conviction, presenting the single issue on appeal of whether the proof was sufficient to sustain the conviction. Based upon our review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

FACTS The State's first witness, Anthony Lewis, testified that the defendant had been staying with him at his mobile home in Ripley, Tennessee, during the month of September 1999. On September 26-27, 1999, both the victim, Sherry Richardson, and the defendant were at the trailer, as was Lewis. He described the defendant's actions as they were watching television: Q. Okay. So y'all got

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