Legal Opinion
State v. Sumrall
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 7, 2010No. KA 09-1216PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREMILLION, Judge.
| defendant, Michael D. Sumrall, was found guilty of second degree murder after trial by jury. He was given the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. We affirm.
FACTS
Mark Schermerhorn was murdered at his home on June 23, 2006, while Defendant and Tina Pruitt were also present. Schermerhorn was stabbed eight times. The wound on his left front chest was six and a half inches deep; it punctured the upper lobe of the left lung and penetrated the pericardial sac. The wound on the right side of his…
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