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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. David LATHAN, Appellant.
    No. ED 79643.
    Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.
    June 4, 2002.
    Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied July 23, 2002.
    Application for Transfer Denied Aug. 27, 2002.
    Raymund J. Capelovitch, St. Louis, MO, for appellant.
    John Munson Morris III, Dora A. Fichter, Jefferson City, MO, for respondent.
    Before GEORGE W. DRAPER III, P.J., MARY R. RUSSELL, J., and MARY K HOFF, J.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

David Lathan appeals from the judgment entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of one count of murder in the second degree and one count of armed criminal action in the beating death of his 8-year-old daughter. On the charge of murder in the second degree, he was sentenced to life in prison, and on the armed criminal action charge, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison, said sentences to be served consecutively. We find no error and affirm.

No jurisprudential purpose would be served by a written opinion reciting the detailed facts and restating the principles of law. We have, however, furnished the parties with a memorandum opinion for their information only, which sets forth the facts and reasons for this order.

We affirm the judgment pursuant to Rule 30.25(b).