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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT KNOXVILLE
Assigned on Briefs August 16, 2005

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. PATRICK HYDER
Appeal from the Criminal Court for Washington County
No. 28733 Robert E. Cupp, Judge

No. E2005-00364-CCA-R3-CD  Filed September 27, 2005
A Washington County Criminal Court jury convicted the defendant, Patrick Hyder, of two counts of aggravated sexual battery, a class B felony, and the trial court sentenced him to eight years for each count to be served concurrently in the Department of Correction.  The defendant appeals, contending that the trial court erred in reassembling the jury to announce its verdict and polling the jury after it had been discharged.  We affirm the judgments of the trial court.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgments of the Criminal Court Affirmed
JOSEPH M. TIPTON, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which THOM AS T. WOODALL and ROBERT W. WEDEMEYER, JJ., joined.
Donald E. Spurrell, Johnson City, Tennessee, for the appellant, Patrick Hyder.
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Brent C. Cherry, Assistant Attorney General; Joe
C. Crumley, Jr., District Attorney General; Dennis Dwayne Brooks, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION
This case relates to the defendant

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