State v. Bell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Davis, J.:

Horace Bell, Jr., appeals his convictions of felonymur-der, criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied motor vehicle, and criminal damage to property. He contends that the district court should have instructed the jury on self-defense and involuntary manslaughter, his taped and written statements should have been suppressed, and that insufficient evidence supported his felony-murder conviction. We affirm.

On May 15, 2000, the defendant, Chad Humiston, Keontis Hall, Sergio Pineda, Ronald Madden, and others were gathered at the home of…