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STATE v. KEMPER

No. KCD 27015.

535 S.W.2d 241 (1976)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Benedict Louis KEMPER, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied February 9, 1976.

Applications to Transfer Denied May 5, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank H. Strong, Larry L. Zahnd, Maryville, William D. Lay, Platte City, Richard J. Habiger, National Juvenile Law Center, St. Louis, for appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Robert L. Presson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

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

ROBERT R. WELBORN, Special Judge.

On a change of venue from Nodaway County, a jury in the Platte County Circuit Court found Benedict Kemper guilty on four counts of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on each conviction. He appeals from such sentence and judgment.

On October 11, 1972, the bodies of Marion Merrigan and Kathleen Merrigan, husband and wife, and of their children, William and Helen Merrigan, were found in their home...

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