STATE v. PETREE

No. KCD 29022.

568 S.W.2d 546 (1978)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Donald E. PETREE, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Kansas City District.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Craig Cassing, Sedalia, for appellant; Brown, Buckley & Cassing, Sedalia, of counsel.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Carson W. Elliff, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before WELBORN, Special Judge, Presiding, HIGGINS, Special Judge, and PRITCHARD, J.


PRITCHARD, Judge.

By the verdict of a jury, appellant was convicted of the offense of murder in the first degree, and upon a finding that he was a second offender, the court sentenced him to life imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.

Appellant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence. Suffice it to say that the facts show that appellant, on May 17, 1975, fired shots into the back of his estranged wife, Dorothy Petree, in a parking lot, which...

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