01/11/95 State Tennessee V. James Edward Hayes

The defendant, James Edward Hayes, was convicted by a jury in the Gibson County Circuit Court on two counts of aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony. As a Range I, standard offender, he received the maximum sentence of twelve years for each offense to be served consecutively, for an effective sentence of twenty-four years in the custody of the Department of Correction. In this appeal as of right, the defendant contends that: