State v. Hartman

GARY W. LYNCH, Judge.

William R. Hartman (“Defendant”) was convicted following a jury trial of committing murder in the second degree, in violation of § 565.021. 1 The court sentenced him as a prior and persistent offender under §§ 558.016 and 557.036 to a term of twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. Defendant appeals, contending the trial court erred in admitting alleged hearsay testimony, giving a jury instruction on accomplice liability, and allowing the prosecutor to show enlargements of certain admitted photographs to the jury. We affirm.

1) Factual and…