Opinion ID: 1667817
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: charges and verdict

Text: Tucker was charged with first degree murder, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony, and possession of a deadly weapon by a felon. Tucker waived a jury trial. The parties stipulated that he was a convicted felon. The State's charge of first degree murder was based on alternative theories of premeditation and felony murder. The court found Tucker guilty of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter by unintentionally causing the death of... Everbeck while in the commission of an unlawful act. The court did not specify the unlawful act, although it also found Tucker guilty of possession of a deadly weapon by a felon. Finally, the court found Tucker guilty of use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony. In so doing, the court explained that the predicate felony to that offense was assaultat least in the first and/or second degree on ... Everbeck and/or a terroristic threat towards... Everbeck.