State v. Patterson

CROW, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was tried by jury on four criminal charges:

Count I: assault in the first degree, § 565.050,1 by knowingly causing serious physical injury to Arthur Duncan.

Count II: armed criminal action, § 571.015, by committing the crime in Count I with a deadly weapon.

Count III: murder in the first degree, § 565.020, by knowingly causing the *476death of Joyce Patterson after deliberation.

Count IV: armed criminal action, § 571.015, by committing the crime in Count III with a deadly weapon.

The jury presented the trial court a set of verdicts which the court rejected. After a…