State v. Feuillerat

BERNDT, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was found guilty of murder by a jury on June 30, 1979. * This is an appeal from his conviction which resulted in a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

Defendant, James Lee Perdue III, and Jeffrey K. Gill left Wichita, Kansas, for South Dakota in Gill’s pickup on March 16, 1978, to steal some furs. They arrived in South Dakota on March 17, 1978, and stopped at a filling station after having checked out several places which sold furs. While Gill was making some telephone calls, defendant and Perdue had a conversation. According to Perdue’s testimony, he…