KENNEDY v. STATE

Nos. 4898, 4899.

595 P.2d 577 (1979)

Ronald Leroy KENNEDY, Appellant (Defendant below), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff below). Jerry Lee JENKINS, Appellant (Defendant below), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

May 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald M. Gallivan, Director, Wyoming Defender Aid Program, and David F. Evans, Student Intern, Wyoming Defender Aid Program, Laramie, for appellants.

V. Frank Mendicino, Atty. Gen., Gerald A. Stack, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Honaker, Asst. Atty. Gen., Sharon A. Fitzgerald, Senior Law Student and Intern, Cheyenne, and W. Thomas Sullins, II, Casper, Deputy County Atty., Natrona County, for appellee.

Before McCLINTOCK, THOMAS and ROSE, JJ., GUTHRIE, J., ret., and NICHOLAS, District Judge.


W.J. NICHOLAS, District Judge.

Appellants were mandatorily sentenced by the district court to life imprisonment after the death penalty for murder was set aside by this court. See Kennedy v. State, Wyo., 559 P.2d 1014 (1977). Appellants now complain because the judge ordered that the new sentences be served consecutively to sentences imposed for other offenses committed at approximately the same time as the murder. Their arguments...

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