State v. Taylor

LAKE, Justice.

The defendant was indicted on 13 November 1990 for the offenses of robbery with a dangerous weapon and the first-degree murder of Janie Gaskins. The defendant was tried capitally, and the jury found defendant guilty as charged of robbery with a dangerous weapon and of first-degree murder on theories of both premeditation and deliberation and felony murder. Following a capital sentencing hearing, the jury recommended a sentence of life imprisonment for the murder conviction. Judge Phillips sentenced the defendant to consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder and forty…