STATE v. MORLEY

No. 15201.

748 S.W.2d 66 (1988)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Christopher MORLEY, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division Two.

Motion for Rehearing or Transfer Denied April 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lew Kollias, Columbia, for defendant-appellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Karen A. King, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.


FLANIGAN, Judge.

A jury found defendant Christopher Morley guilty of voluntary manslaughter, (§565.023),1 and he was sentenced to imprisonment for seven years. Defendant appeals.

The charge arose out of an incident which occurred on November 27, 1986, in Poplar Bluff. The victim, William Dorian, 19, was fatally stabbed by defendant during an altercation between Dorian on the one...

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