State of Tennessee v. Abbigail Morton

Following a jury trial, Defendant, Abbigail Morton, was convicted of one count of attempted premeditated first degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit premeditated first degree murder. The trial court sentenced Defendant as a Range I, standard offender, to concurrent sentences of twenty years for each conviction. In her appeal, Defendant argues that (1) the testimony of the co-defendant, Robert Hunter, was insufficiently corroborated to support Defendant’s convictions; (2) the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions; (3) the trial court erred in not instructing the jury on the lesser included offense of solicitation of first degree murder; and (4) the trial court erred in not sentencing Defendant as an especially mitigated offender. After a thorough review of
the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.