State v. Tipton

DANIEL E. SCOTT, Chief Judge.

Darrell Tipton seeks plain error review 1 of his double jeopardy challenge to two of five convictions he received in a jury trial. We affirm the judgment and convictions because plain error relief is inappropriate.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not at issue, and Tipton’s sole point is a narrow one, so we decline to detail the sometimes grisly trial evidence. Suffice it to say that Tipton, a drifter from Tennessee, was living temporarily in a small backyard shed in Springfield. He had become acquainted with a woman whose badly decomposed body was discovered…