State v. Wounded Arrow

Pursuant to an agreement whereunder the plaintiff-appellee, State of Nebraska, dismissed its use of a weapon in the commission of a felony charge and reduced its first degree murder charge to one of second degree murder, the defendant-appellant, William Wounded Arrow, pled no contest to the amended murder charge and was thereupon so adjudged and later sentenced to life imprisonment. The defendant urges the district court erred by (1) considering improper factors in determining the sentence and (2) imposing an excessive sentence. We affirm.

The defendant and the victim, Donna Wounded Arrow,…