State v. Rulon

GERALD M. SMITH, Judge.

Defendant appeals from judgments of conviction of murder second degree and armed criminal action based on a jury verdict. The jury recommended punishment of ten years imprisonment on the murder charge and three years on the armed criminal action charge which the trial court imposed to run concurrently. We affirm.

No question is raised of the sufficiency of the evidence. Defendant and the victim, Kelly Lafferty, were business partners and homosexual lovers. Beginning in 1992 they lived together in a house owned by defendant. Defendant adduced considerable evidence that…