STATE v. THOMAS

No. 53601.

440 S.W.2d 467 (1969)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Sanford THOMAS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

April 14, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Gene E. Voigts, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., North Kansas City, for respondent.

Alfred I. Harris, St. Louis, for appellant.


SEILER, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction of first degree murder of a cab driver, with a sentence of life imprisonment.

From the evidence in the case, the jury could reasonably have found the following to be the facts:

On Sunday evening, November 27, 1966, defendant, age 17, had been riding with six or seven other youths around the North Florissant and Cass Avenue neighborhood in St. Louis. The...

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