Hammersla v. State

Jack Lewis Hammersla, Jr. 1 , appellant, was charged with murder, robbery, theft, assault, burglary, and malicious destruction. A jury trial was held in the Circuit Court for Washington County from October 3-6, 2006. Appellant was found guilty of felony murder, second degree murder, burglary, theft, and malicious destruction of property. He was sentenced to incarceration for life without the possibility of parole on the felony murder charge and to a concurrent term of 30 years on the second degree murder charge. The trial judge merged the burglary charge into the felony murder charge and did…