STATE v. BEEBE

No. 61,321

244 Kan. 48 (1988)

766 P.2d 158

STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. JOHN E. BEEBE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed December 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Dedmon, assistant appellate defender, argued the cause, and Benjamin C. Wood, chief appellate defender, was with him on the brief for appellant.

Mike Ward, county attorney, and Robert T. Stephan, attorney general, were on the brief for appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

McFARLAND, J.:

John E. Beebe appeals his jury trial convictions of first-degree murder (K.S.A. 21-3401), and of aggravated kidnapping (K.S.A. 21-3421).

From the evidence at trial, the facts underlying these brutal and senseless crimes may be summarized as follows. On the evening of January 1, 1987, Lawrence Leland Capps left his mother's home in Andover to do his laundry. Mr. Capps was eighteen years old. He...

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