State v. Frances

SMART, Presiding Judge.

John F. Frances, Jr., was convicted of two counts of assault in the first degree, one count of assault in the second degree, and three counts of armed criminal action. The convictions arose out of a shooting incident which occurred on April 15, 1996, in Kansas City. There were three alleged victims of the shooting; Gregory Watson, Stanley Johnson, and Jonathan Barnes. Frances appeals two of the three convictions of armed criminal action on the basis that all three of the charges of armed criminal action were identical in that all related specifically to the shooting of…