State v. Winston

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Davis, J.:

This is a companion case to State v. Tatum, (No. 93,931, this day decided). Chatha Tatum and Charles R. Winston were codefendants and were tried together. Winston appeals his convictions and sentences for first-degree murder, an off-grid crime (K.S.A. 21-3401), and attempted first-degree murder, a severity level 1 person felony (K.S.A. 21-3401; 21-3301). He raises the following points which he claims require that we reverse his convictions: (1) the admission of gang evidence; (2) the denial of his motion for a separate trial from his…