STATE v. DODSON

No. 37903.

551 S.W.2d 932 (1977)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Cornelius DODSON, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division One.

Motion for Rehearing or Transfer Denied June 9, 1977.

Application to Transfer Denied July 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee & O'Hanlon, Robert J. O'Hanlon, Lawrence J. Lee, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Preston Dean, David L. Baylard, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jefferson City, George A. Peach, Circuit Atty., St. Louis, for plaintiff-respondent.


WEIER, Judge.

Defendant Cornelius Dodson was found guilty of first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In this appeal from the judgment of conviction defendant advances four contentions of trial error. To understand these contentions a statement of the facts is required.

On February 7, 1975, Henry Blake was found dead in his car parked at a St. Louis housing project. He had been shot to death. Recovered on the ground nearby were forty-five...

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