eBook details
- Title: State v. Ritchey
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 05, 1977
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
Description
The opinion of the court was delivered by Mark E. Ritchey was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder and felony theft in violation of K.S.A. 21-3402 and 21-3701 (a). He was sentenced to imprisonment for consecutive terms of fifteen years to life and three to ten years. He appeals, contending that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for a psychiatric evaluation, and in instructing the jury that malice may be inferred by use of a deadly weapon. A complaint was filed in Sedgwick County on April 21, 1975, charging that on March 25, 1975, Mark E. Ritchey unlawfully, willfully and maliciously killed and murdered Joey Tapscott by hitting him about the head with a pool cue, and that on the same date Ritchey obtained and exercised unauthorized control over Tapscott's automobile, a 1968 Pontiac which was valued at more than $50.