State v. Givens

BERREY, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of two counts of assault in the first degree with a deadly weapon. Pursuant to a finding by the court that defendant was a persistent offender, defendant was sentenced to consecutive terms of life and fifteen years imprisonment. From this defendant appeals.

The participants in this affair are Fred Givens, the defendant, Laura Cobb, defendant’s sometime girlfriend, and John Bryant, a two-week acquaintance of Laura Cobb.

Bryant was a construction worker and on August 21, 1984, he was sent home early due to rain. Bryant lived in Kansas City, Kansas.…