SHEPARD v. STATE

No. 86-42.

720 P.2d 904 (1986)

Willard Joseph SHEPARD, Appellant (Defendant), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

June 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard D. Munker, State Public Defender, and Julie D. Naylor, Appellate Counsel, Public Defender Program, Cheyenne, for appellant.

A.G. McClintock, Atty. Gen., Gerald A. Stack, Deputy Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen and Sylvia Lee Hackl, Sr. Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.

Before THOMAS, C.J., and BROWN, CARDINE, URBIGKIT and MACY, JJ.


MACY, Justice.

Appellant Willard Shepard pled guilty to attempted voluntary manslaughter in violation of §§ 6-2-105(a)(i) and 6-1-301(a)(i), W.S. 1977 (June 1983 Replacement). For this crime he was sentenced to not less than ten nor more than twenty years in the Wyoming State Penitentiary. He has appealed, raising the sole issue of:

"Whether the district court committed reversible error and abused its discretion in sentencing Willard Shepard, Jr...

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