State v. Rainey

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

George Eric Rainey was convicted, upon jury trial in Butler County District Court, of the first-degree murder of Ferdinand “Bud” Pribbenow, a trooper on the Kansas Highway Patrol. Rainey appeals, claiming that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a change of venue, in failing to sustain his challenges of three jurors for cause, in permitting the State to introduce in evidence certain “gruesome” photographs of the deceased, in allowing a tape recording and a transcript thereof to be received in evidence, in limiting the testimony…