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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
September 2000 Session

WILLIAM A. HOLT, JR. v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Appeal from the Criminal Court for Marshall County
No. 14119 Charles Lee, Judge

No. M2000-01063-CCA-R3-PC - Filed October 30, 2000
The appellant was originally convicted by a Marshall County jury of attempt to commit first degree murder, and he received a sentence of twenty-one years imprisonment.  The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal.  He sought post-conviction relief, which was denied by the trial court.  In this appeal as a matter of right, the appellant contends that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance of counsel.  After a thorough review of the record, we conclude that the trial court correctly denied post-conviction relief.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Criminal Court Affirmed
JOE G. RILEY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DAVID H. WELLES and NORMA MCGEE OGLE, JJ., joined.
N. Andy Myrick, Jr., Fayetteville, Tennessee, for the appellant, William A. Holt, Jr.
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Jennifer L. Smith, Assistant Attorney General; William Michael McCown, District Attorney General; and Weakley E. Barnard, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION
The appellant was convicted of attempted first degree murder and sentenced to twenty-one years imprisonment.  The conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. State v. William Alfred Holt, Jr., C.C.A. No. 01C01-9704-CC-00155, Marshall County (Tenn. Crim. App. filed March 27, 1998, at Nashville), perm. to app. denied (Tenn. 1998).  The appellant subsequently filed a pro se petition for post-conviction relief. After a hearing, the trial court denied the petition.  The appellant raises the following three issues concerning his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel:
(1)
trial counsel failed to locate and call to testify essential defense witnesses;

(2)
trial counsel, against the appellant

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