State v. Lanigan

OPINION

FAY, Chief Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal. 1 In action No. 85-363 C.A., the defendant appeals from a Superior Court jury conviction for first-degree murder and assault with intent to murder. The defendant’s motion for new trial was denied and he was sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment for the murder and twenty years for the assault, the sentences to run consecutively.

In action No. 84-116 M.P., we granted defendant’s petition for certiorari from a Superior Court revocation-of-probation determination. At the time the murder and assault charges were lodged against him,…