State v. McNichols

The appellant, Lee McNichols (McNichols), appeals from a sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon McNichols by reason of his having been convicted of the crime of murder in the second degree in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-304 (Reissue 1979). Murder in the second degree is a Class IB felony punishable by imprisonment of not less than 10 years nor more than the defendant’s natural life. McNichols was sentenced by the trial court to confinement to the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex for a period of his natural life. His single assignment of error is that the sentence to a term of…