State v. Arrington

MORGAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was tried to a jury on two counts of an indictment and found guilty of robbery in the first degree and murder in the second degree. Punishment was assessed at confinement for five years and twenty years, respectively, to be served consecutively.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged and a rather summarized version thereof should be adequate.

Witness Jerry T. Mitchell testified that he lived in an apartment at 3700 Warwick in Kansas City; that on the night of July 6, 1975, he and others (including one Michael Gallagher) were having a party at his home;…