State v. Richard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, C.J.:

This is an appeal in a criminal action from a jury verdict finding Clyde Richard a/k/a Clyde Rhodes (defendant-appellant) guilty of aggravated battery (K.S.A. 21-3414) and first-degree murder (K.S.A. 21-3401).

In the early morning hours of June 8, 1980, Darlene Bruner was shot through the head while standing inside an open doorway at the Twenty Grand Club, a drinking and dancing establishment, in Independence, Kansas. She died immediately. The bullet which killed her passed through a paneled wall behind her and was found embedded in a…