State v. Hazelett

Defendant was convicted of first degree murder, sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals. He assigns as error the refusal of the court to remove from the jury’s consideration felony murder as a basis for the first degree murder conviction and he claims the court erred in submitting to the jury two separate theories: (1) felony murder, and (2) premeditated murder, instructing them that it was not necessary that they all concur as to whether the defendant committed felony murder or premeditated murder so long as they unanimously concurred that defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of…