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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE

FILED
AT JACKSON


June 15, 1998 Cecil Crowson, Jr.
Appellate C ourt Clerk
) FOR PUBLICATION

STATE OF TENNESSEE

)
Appellee ) FILED: JUNE 15, 1998
)

V. ) MADISON COUNTY
)
) HON. FRANKLIN MURCHISON,

MICHAEL RALPH ALFORD ) JUDGE
)
Appellant ) NO. 02-S-01-9704-CC-00030

For Appellant: For Appellee:

DAVID L. HAMBLEN JOHN KNOX WALKUP
Union City, Tennessee Attorney General and Reporter

MICHAEL E. MOORE
Solicitor General

GORDON W. SMITH
Associate Solicitor General

DEBORAH A. TULLIS
Assistant Attorney General
Nashville, Tennessee

JAMES G. WOODALL
District Attorney General

DONALD H. ALLEN
Assistant District Attorney
Jackson, Tennessee

OPINION


REVERSED AND REMANDED BIRCH, J.

The Circuit Court for Madison County entered judgment on
a jury verdict convicting Michael Ralph Alford, the appellant, of
aggravated assault1 for stabbing Ricky Murchison with the sharp end
of a four-way tire tool and inflicting a wound approximately five to
six inches deep.  Following a hearing, the trial court imposed a
sentence of four years in the Department of Correction.  Except for
sixty days to be served in the county jail, the sentence was
suspended upon the following conditions:

(1)
Three years and ten months of
supervised probation;


(2)
Performance of two hundred hours
of community service;


(3)
Payment within ninety days of
$4,791.01 as restitution to the
victim; and


(4)
Payment of $68,589.09 as
restitution to the insurance carrier
for the medical expenses it paid
under the victim

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