STATE v. ROULETTE

No. 54612.

451 S.W.2d 336 (1970)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. James ROULETTE, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

March 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Charles A. Blackmar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for respondent.

Michael D. Konomos, Kansas City, Mo., for appellant.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

A jury found the appellant, James Roulette, Jr., guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. The indictment charged that on November 11, 1967, George Brown, Charles Burch, James Johnson and Roulette made an assault upon, shot and killed Emil Dean Kays with a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver.

In brief the circumstances were that Kays, a General Motors employee, and Eva Young were to have been...

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