Legal Opinion
State v. Ferguson
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided December 10, 1993No. 68,131PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Allegrucci, J.:
This is a direct appeal by the defendant, Lena Ferguson, from her jury convictions of one count of aggravated arson and one count of felony murder. She was sentenced to a term of 15 years to life for aggravated arson to run concurrently with a term of life imprisonment for felony murder.
On January 13, 1991, David Summers died from smoke and heat inhalation along with some carbon monoxide asphyxiation. His body was found in the living room of his house at 3116 SE Dupont in Topeka, where there had been a fire. The autopsy showed that…
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3Cited by31 opinions
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