State v. White

BERREY, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of second degree murder and armed criminal action. He was adjudged a prior and persistent offender and was sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of second degree murder and 100 years imprisonment on armed criminal action. The trial court ordered the sentences to run consecutively. Appellant also appeals the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion and the appeals are consolidated herein.

Appellant and his friend, Loren Swenson had been drinking the evening of March 22, 1990. Eventually they ended up at Amnesia’s, a bar in Clay County. Appellant…