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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON

Assigned on Briefs November 10, 2009
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JONATHAN RANSOM
Direct Appeal from the Criminal Court for Shelby County
No. 07-05863  James C. Beasley, Jr., Judge

No. W2008-02241-CCA-R3-CD  - Filed February 11, 2010
The defendant, Jonathan Ransom, was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to twenty-five years as a Range I, standard offender.  On appeal, he argues that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction.  After careful review, we affirm the judgment from the trial court.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Criminal Court Affirmed
JOHN EVERETT WILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which ROBERT W. WEDEMEYER and J.C. MCLIN, JJ., joined.
Lance R. Chism, Memphis, Tennessee (on appeal); and Robert Wilson Jones, District Public Defender; and Robert Felkner and Glenda Adams, Assistant Public Defenders (at trial), for the appellant, Jonathan Ransom.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Renee Turner, Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Amy Weirich, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION
The victim, Daphney Rogers, was murdered in her home after her husband left for work on July 25, 1988.  Almost nineteen years later, the defendant was arrested for the murder after he turned himself in at a Memphis police station and confessed that he killed the victim to exact revenge on the victim

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