STATE OF TENNESSEE v. EARL DAVID MANEY

The Defendant was charged with first degree premeditated murder after shooting and
killing the victim during an argument. The Defendant was tried before a jury, and the trial
court instructed the jury on the defense of self-defense. The jury convicted the Defendant
of the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter. The trial court sentenced the
Defendant to five years of incarceration, suspended after the service of eleven months,
twenty-nine days. In this direct appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred in
allowing an eyewitness to offer opinion testimony, simultaneously infringing on the
Defendant’s constitutional right to not testify, and that the trial court erred in ordering the
Defendant to serve a portion of his sentence in confinement. We affirm the judgment of
the trial court.