a four-inch laceration and caused a massive fracture of his skull on the left side. Dr. Jack Adams, the county medical examiner, testified that the main cause of death was this massive skull fracture. Fragments of a reddish orange colored heavy glass candle holder were found in and about the victim's wounds. When the victim was found, his body was lying face down in his trailer with his head on the couch and the remainder of his body in the floor.
Meanwhile, early on the morning of September 9, 1980, Jerry Randall Johnson, the chief deputy sheriff of Sequatchie County, received a telephone call from a confidential informant who related that the defendant was then in possession of guns stolen from Reverend Russell's residence in Dunlap, Tennessee, and wasat or near the Smith residence behind the school in the Lusk Community of Bledsoe County and was attempting to sell the guns to obtain money for use in going to Indiana. The informant gave the deputy the license number of the truck as well as a detailed description thereof. The deputy knew that the informant was not a person involved in criminal activity but was a member of a "Christian family." Moreover, he knew of the defendant's past involvement in thefts and dealing in stolen property. Since the Lusk Community was in Bledsoe County, thus outside the normal jurisdiction of the deputy, he radioed the Sheriff's Department of Bledsoe County, explained his mission and the exigent circumstances and requested permission for him to proceed to apprehend the