State v. Love

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Defendant James A. Love was charged by two separate informations with second degree murder. The victims, respectively, were Jeffery Berger, a male child, and Sheilia L. Curtright, the child’s babysitter. Both charges, by stipulation of the parties, were consolidated for trial. A Jackson County jury found defendant guilty as charged in both informations and fixed his punishment at one hundred and fifty years imprisonment for each conviction. Judgments were entered and sentences were pronounced accordingly, said sentences to run consecutively.

On appeal, defendant exhorts this…