Legue v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

The defendant, Kevin Legue, was convicted of the May, 1994, shotgun murder of Mark Sykes and the attempted kidnapping of John Bosse. The trial court ordered an aggregate sentence of one hundred and ten years, sixty years for the murder and .fifty years for the attempted kidnapping, to be served consecutively.' This direct appeal presents three claims: (1) ineffective assistance of counsel; (2) erroneous refusal to give an tendered instruction; and (3) improper and excessive sentence.

The defendant first contends that he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel because…