State v. Peckham

The opinion of the court was delivered by

ABBOTT, J.:

This is a direct appeal by defendant Larxy D. Peck-ham, Sr., from his convictions of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery and from the “hard-40” sentence imposed.

The motive in this case is bizarre. The body of Raul “Roy” Hernandez was discovered in a field at 53rd and Greenwich Road in Wichita, Kansas, on March 6, 1992. He had been shot five times in the head, twice in the forehead with a .22 caliber weapon and three times on the right side of the head with á .38 caliber weapon. The gunshot wounds were inflicted on two occasions…