STATE v. BOOTH

No. 52660.

423 S.W.2d 820 (1968)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Albert BOOTH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

February 12, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, W. Scott Pollard, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Louis, for respondent.

Raymond A. Bruntrager, St. Louis, William L. Mason, Jr., Galena, for appellant.


SEILER, Judge.

This case involves the question of whether testimony by a drug addict who had taken three injections of heroin of unspecified strength and size within a period of twelve hours, the last about fifteen minutes before the occurrence of the events to which he testified, constitutes substantial direct testimony that the defendant feloniously shot the deceased. We conclude it does under the facts before us and affirm the judgment.

Defendant was convicted...

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