State v. Heath

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Davis, J.;

Glenn A. Heath, Jr., was convicted in 1996 of felony murder and abuse of a child. After allocution, the district court imposed a mandatory life sentence for the felony murder and 68 months’ imprisonment for the child abuse conviction, to run consecutively. This court subsequently reversed Heath’s conviction for abuse of a child because of multiplicity and vacated his sentence for that conviction. At the same time, without remanding for re-sentencing, we affirmed his conviction and sentence for felony murder. State v. Heath, 264 Kan. 557,…