STATE v. NICKENS

No. 50718.

403 S.W.2d 582 (1966)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Earl Eugene NICKENS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

June 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., James J. Murphy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

J. Paul Allred, Jr., David L. Campbell, William D. Mykins and Martin Schiff, Jr., St. Louis, Jules B. Gerard, St. Louis, of counsel, for defendant-appellant.


HENLEY, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment and sentence imposing the penalty of death. He was charged by indictment in usual and common form with murder in the first degree and tried as having committed homicide in the perpetration of robbery. Section 559.010, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S. His plea was: "not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect excluding responsibility." Section 552.030, paragraph 2, RSMo 1959 (1965 Cumulative Supplement), V.A.M.S. A jury found...

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