MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.
The appellant, Billy Smith, was sentenced to life imprisonment for assaulting with intent to rob, on March 30, 1963, an 86-year old woman who lived alone in an isolated section of Adair County. The elderly woman was tortured in an attempt to force her to disclose the location of about $5,000 in cash which she supposedly had stashed away in her home, part of the proceeds from old age pension payments which she saved because she "did not know...
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