Cowart v. State

KING, Justice,

for the Court:

PART ONE

¶ 1. A jury convicted Kendrick Cowart of armed robbery and conspiracy, and acquitted him of murder and manslaughter. The trial court sentenced him, to fifty-three years: forty-eight years for. armed robbery and five years for conspiracy. Terrance London, Cowart’s co-defendant who pled guilty to armed robbery, conspiracy, and manslaughter,, received a sentence of either forty or forty-five years. Cowart appeals, arguing that-this, .Court should reverse his convictions because his .statement to police should have been suppressed, photographs of the victim…