HOUSTON v. STATE

No. 5364.

648 P.2d 1024 (1982)

James David HOUSTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

July 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Fabe, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

Stephen Branchflower, Asst. Dist. Atty., Larry R. Weeks, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, and Wilson L. Condon, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BRYNER, C.J., and COATS and SINGLETON, JJ.


OPINION

SINGLETON, Judge.

James Houston appeals his sentence of fifteen-years imprisonment, with three years suspended, imposed following his nolo contendere plea to manslaughter, former AS 11.15.040. Houston was originally charged with and convicted of second-degree murder. He previously appealed that conviction and the supreme court reversed, finding error in the lower court's failure to grant a bifurcated trial on the separate defenses of insanity...

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