Liggins v. State

| ,A Craighead County jury found appellant Edward Anthony Liggins guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree battery. He was sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment for first-degree murder; however, his sentence was enhanced by fifteen years and ten years, respectively, for employing a firearm and for committing the crime in the presence of a child. 1 The sentence plus the enhancements were to run consecutively, for an aggregate sentence of sixty-five years’ imprisonment. He was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for first-degree battery. This sentence was to run concurrently to the…