Rouse v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

Appellant, Ronnie Ray Rouse, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, McClain County, Case No. CRF-76-13, for the offense of Murder in the Second Degree. The defendant received an indeterminate sentence of from ten (10) years to life imprisonment. From this judgment and sentence defendant has effected a timely appeal.

The defendant was charged and convicted of the killing of his former wife’s stepmother, Barbara Clark. On February 19, 1976, about 4:30 p. m., Lorri Clark and her stepmother returned to the stepmother’s…