State v. Burke

FRYE, Justice.

Defendant, Bobby Paul Burke, was tried noncapitally, and a jury found him guilty of the first-degree murder of Patrick Joseph Leuten. The trial judge imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. Defendant was also convicted of one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied motor vehicle, but judgment was arrested on this conviction. On this appeal, defendant makes six assignments of error. We conclude that defendant’s trial was free from prejudicial error.

The State’s evidence at trial tended to show the following facts and circumstances: In the early morning hours…