State v. Qualls

The opinion of the court was delivered by Rosen, J.:

*303 In 2008, James Qualls shot a man to death following a dispute over a pool game. He was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder. This court reversed the conviction for failure to give lesser included offenses instructions. State v. Qualls , 297 Kan. 61 , 298 P.3d 311 (2013). On retrial in 2014, a jury again found him guilty of premeditated first-degree murder. He takes this direct appeal.

FACTS

At the second trial, evidence of the following facts was introduced to the jury.

On the evening of July 16, 2008, Qualls and his wife, whom he had…