FAIRCHILD v. STATE

No. F-96-121.

965 P.2d 391 (1998)

1998 OK CR 47

Richard Stephen FAIRCHILD, Appellant, v. STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.

August 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandra Stensaas, Patty E. Wallace, Oklahoma County Asst. Dist. Attys., for the State at Trial.

John Albert, Asst. Public Defender, for defendant at Trial.

Lee Ann Jones Peters, Appellate Defense Counsel, Capital Direct Appeals Div., Oklahoma Indigent Defense System, for Appellant on Appeal.

W.A. Drew Edmondson, Atty. Gen., Robert Whittaker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for Appellee on Appeal.


PER CURIAM:

¶ 1 Richard Stephen Fairchild was tried by jury and convicted of Child-Abuse Murder in the First Degree, 21 O.S.1991, § 701(C), in Oklahoma County District Court Case No. CF-93-7103. The jury found one aggravating circumstance in the second stage, that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, and set punishment at death. The Honorable Major Wilson, District Judge, imposed the death sentence...

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