State v. Turner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is a direct appeal from convictions of first-degree murder (K.S.A. 21-3401) and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer (K.S.A. 21-3411). This prosecution arose out of an occurrence which took place on October 19,1976, in Kansas City, Kansas. The defendant, John Wesley Turner, a young man of twenty-one years on parole from the Kansas State Reformatory, stabbed to death his parole officer with a. knife. On the same occasion the defendant attacked another law enforcement officer with the same knife. Following his arrest at the…