State v. Jones

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the second degree murder of his teenage stepson, and sentenced to 25 years incarceration. He appeals of right raising issues challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the court’s instruction to the jury, the imposition of sentencing beyond the statutorily proscribed period, and the trial court’s exclusion of the testimony of a defense witness.

The appellant contends that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the jury’s guilty verdict of second degree murder. More specifically, he alleges that he killed the victim in self defense, and that…