State v. Crutchfield

HUDSON, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. The court sentenced defendant to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for the first degree murder and 92 to 120 months for the assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Defendant appeals.

Background

Victims Briana and Ricardo Crutchfield were the children of defendant and his ex-wife, Pamela Beasley McClary. Ricardo was bom in March 1989 and Briana in October 1992. McClary and defendant were divorced in June 1994. The children were…