State v. Werner

MAUS, Presiding Judge.

Count I of an information charged that defendant, Larry H. Werner, committed murder in the first degree in that defendant, after deliberation, knowingly killed Calvin F. Long (Long) by shooting him. § 565.020.1. Count II charged that defendant committed that felony with a deadly weapon and was guilty of armed criminal action. § 571.015.1. The state waived the death penalty. The defendant entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect excluding responsibility. A jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree, § 565.021.1(1), and armed…