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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
Assigned on Briefs June 20, 2006

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JEFFREY OWEN WALTERS
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Marshall County
No. 15883 Charles Lee, Judge

No. M2005-01856-CCA-R3-CD - August 21, 2006
The Appellant, Jeffrey Owen Walters, was convicted by a Marshall County jury of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty-three years and nine months in the Department of Correction.  On appeal, he has raised two issues for our review: (1) whether the evidence is sufficient  to support the conviction; and (2) whether the State failed to furnish Walters all of his in-custody statements in violation of Tenn. R. Crim. P. 16.  Following review, we conclude that the evidence is sufficient to support the verdict, and, although we find that the State violated the discovery rule, we conclude that the error is harmless.  Accordingly, the judgment of conviction is affirmed.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3; Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed
DAVID G. HAYES, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which THOM AS T. WOODALL and NORMA MCGEE OGLE, JJ., joined.
Hershell D. Koger, Pulaski, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Jeffrey Owen Walters.
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; C. Daniel Lins, Assistant Attorney General; W. Michael McCown, District Attorney General; and Weakley E. Barnard, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.
OPINION

Factual Background
The Appellant was convicted of the second degree murder of the victim, Shawn Oliver, which occurred in Lewisburg.  The Appellant and the victim had known each other for approximately two years at the time of the homicide.  Prior to the shooting, several confrontations had occurred between the two, as well as a confrontation between the Appellant and the victim

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