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STATE v. KENTON

No. 45219.

298 S.W.2d 433 (1957)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Paul Edward KENTON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

February 11, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Bahn, St. Louis, for appellant.

John M. Dalton, Atty. Gen., Grover C. Huston, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HOLLINGSWORTH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant has appealed from a sentence of life imprisonment for the crime of murder in the first degree. The case arose out of a riot at the State Penitentiary on the night of September 22, 1954, following which defendant and six other inmates were indicted for the murder of a fellow inmate, Walter Lee Donnell. See State v. Laster, Mo.Sup., 293 S.W.2d 300, and State v. Vidauri, Mo.Sup.,

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