STATE v. McCONNELL

No. KCD 27756.

529 S.W.2d 185 (1975)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Waddell McCONNELL, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied November 3, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Larson, Public Defender, Robert A. Simons, Asst. Public Defender, Kansas City, for appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Preston Dean, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before SWOFFORD, P. J., and WELBORN and HIGGINS, Special Judges.


ROBERT R. WELBORN, Special Judge.

Appeal from judgment of conviction and sentence to life imprisonment, entered on jury verdict finding Waddell McConnell guilty of murder in the first degree.

On February 8, 1974, Mr. Hugh Buss was found stabbed to death in his tailor shop in Kansas City. Sometime in March, Robert Land, in police custody on other charges, told police that he had gone with Waddell McConnell to Buss's shop and that McConnell had killed Buss after...

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