State v. Hedge

BERREY, Judge.

Appellant, Michael B. Hedge, was convicted by jury trial of murder in the second degree a class A felony. From this conviction and subsequent sentence of life imprisonment the appellant appeals.

The appellant and the deceased victim, Nancy Phillips, were well acquainted. Appellant had known the deceased for about thirteen years and Nancy had been living with appellant for four or five days before her death. Their relationship had been a stormy one.

On October 8,1987, they had been to the Sky Line Inn and engaged in an altercation to which the Riverside Police Department was…