State v. Boyland

KELLY, Judge.

Appellant Glen Boyland appeals from the judgment and sentence to thirty years imprisonment imposed by the trial court pursuant to the jury recommendation following his conviction on the charge of murder in the second degree in violation of § 565.-021 RSMo.Cum.Supp.1983 (now 1986).

We reverse and remand.

No challenge is raised to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. The circumstances surrounding the shooting can be briefly summarized. On June 28, 1984, eighteen year old Cris Larimore was killed by a single shot to his head from a shotgun that appellant, then…