Stevens v. Kemp

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

The petitioner Stevens, and his accomplice Burger, were convicted of the murder of Roger E. Honeycutt. The evidence at Stevens’ trial showed that Stevens and Burger had summoned a taxi driven by the victim; they robbed the victim of his money and made him disrobe; Stevens then forced him to commit an act of oral sodomy and an act of anal sodomy; the victim was next bound with a cord and placed in the trunk; Stevens suggested that they kill the victim, but Burger disagreed; however, they later drove the taxi to a pond in a wooded area, and Burger drove the…