Burgeson v. State

Hines, Justice.

Melissa Leslie Burgeson was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder while in the commission of armed robbery, armed robbery, and theft of a motor vehicle in connection with the fatal stabbing and beating of Keith Patrick Young. Burgeson challenges the indictment, discovery, the evidence, the lack of a jury poll, and the State’s opening statement and closing argument. We affirm.

The State’s evidence established that the day before the killing, Burgeson, her boyfriend Timothy Carr, 17-year-old Young, and others were at a residence, smoking marijuana, drinking alcohol, and…