eBook details
- Title: State v. Richard
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 27, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
Description
The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal in a criminal action from a jury verdict finding Clyde Richard a/k/a Clyde Rhodes (defendant-appellant) guilty of aggravated battery (K.S.A. 21-3414) and first-degree murder (K.S.A. 21-3401). In the early morning hours of June 8, 1980, Darlene Bruner was shot through the head while standing inside an open doorway at the Twenty Grand Club, a drinking and dancing establishment, in Independence, Kansas. She died immediately. The bullet which killed her passed through a paneled wall behind her and was found embedded in a concrete block behind a second wall. From the holes in the walls it was determined the shot had been fired from a point west of the open doors. The path of the bullet passed directly over a flatbed truck parked in the parking lot of the club, several feet from the doors. Although several people were standing in the parking lot and inside the club near the doors at the time, no one saw who fired the fatal shot. Richard Collins, who was dating Darlene, was standing in the parking lot about ten feet east of the doors when the shot was fired. He looked toward the flatbed truck where he thought the shot had come from. He saw someone running away from the club through an adjoining wooded lot. He could not identify the person he saw running. A man who lived on the other side of the wooded lot testified that after he heard the shot he saw a man run through the lot and get into a car parked in the street across from his house and drive off.