STATE v. DAVIS

No. 51527.

472 S.W.2d 389 (1971)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Jasper Lee DAVIS, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

November 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., G. Michael O'Neal, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Lashly, Caruthers, Rava, Hyndman & Rutherford by Alan J. Steinberg, St. Louis, appointed counsel for appellant.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

In February 1965 a jury found that in stabbing and killing James Ready the appellant, Jasper Lee Davis, Jr., was guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment.

The judgment in that case was appealed and affirmed in 1966 in State v. Davis, Mo., 400 S.W.2d 141. Upon that appeal, however, Davis was not represented by counsel. The consequence was that when in March...

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