State v. Burrage

JOHN E. PARRISH, Presiding Judge.

Dustin D. Burrage (defendant) was convicted of murder in the second degree, § 565.021, 1 and armed criminal action, § 571.015. The trial was before the court without a jury. This court affirms.

Joseph Bartlett had uttered racial epithets and profanity directed to defendant’s grandmother when the grandmother had asked him not to cross her property to buy drugs at a nearby location. Bartlett was white. Defendant’s grandmother is African-American.

After defendant learned of the incident that occurred at his grandmother’s house, he went to the home of Bartlett’s…