STATE v. HARRIS

No. 50637.

382 S.W.2d 642 (1964)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Phillip K. HARRIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

October 12, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Eagleton, Atty. Gen., Louis C. DeFeo, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Phillip K. Harris, pro se.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

On January 18, 1956, when Louise Okee, now described by the appellant Phillip K. Harris as "his lady friend," attempted to terminate their illicit relationship (he was then married and the father of seven children), he beat her to death with "a steel car jack." The circumstances in which the appellant Harris beat Louise to death, an irrefutable fact that he did not deny either then or now, were such that he was first charged with murder in the...

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