State v. LaRock

CLECKLEY, Justice:

The defendant, Jeffrey Scott LaRock, appeals the June 16, 1994, order of the Circuit Court of Fayette County which denied his motion for judgment of acquittal or, in the alternative, for a new trial. The defendant was convicted by a jury of first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without mercy for the Wiling of his nineteen-month-old son, Joshua LaRock. The defendant does not deny that his actions caused his son’s death; instead, at trial, the defendant primarily argued there was insufficient evidence to establish the requisite premeditation and intent for…