Legal Opinion
State v. McJimpson
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided September 5, 1995No. 31653-2-IPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
An exchange of angry words in the parking lot of a Seattle minimart swiftly escalated to a fatal shooting. During the encounter, Darcemon McJimpson brandished a handgun at Andre Watts and fired two shots that hit Ezekial Franklin. Franklin died the next day. Because (a) McJimpson’s convictions for felony murder and felony assault do not constitute multiple punishment for the same crime, (b) the trial court properly refused to instruct the jury on manslaughter, and (c) we find no merit to McJimpson’s other contentions, we affirm.
On the night of March 27, 1992, McJimpson and his *167companion,…
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