STATE v. STRONG

No. 56609.

484 S.W.2d 657 (1972)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Billy Taylor STRONG, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

September 25, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Neil MacFarlane, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

John P. Beihl, Robert B. Randolph, St. Joseph, for appellant.


WILLIAM H. BILLINGS, Special Judge.

Billy Taylor Strong was convicted by a jury of the first degree murder of Robert Cordonier on September 23, 1969, in St. Joseph, Missouri, and sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirm.

The day before the killing the defendant purchased a .22 caliber long rifle pistol, serial No. 490910 from John Westbrook, a clerk at the Dave Cook Sporting Goods store located in Denver, Colorado, for $25. A record of the transaction was...

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