State v. Mitchell

WEIER, Judge.

The defendant Albert Nathaniel Mitchell was convicted of first degree murder for the killing of his stepson, Percy Robertson, and Mitchell was sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence showed that the defendant, his stepson, the defendant’s wife (who was also the victim’s natural mother), and a friend of the stepson, as well as several of the defendant’s younger children, were, sitting in the defendant’s front yard. All but the younger children were drinking.

The defendant and Percy got into an argument over a hammer the younger children were using. This resulted in a fight…