State v. Chambers

BILLINGS, Judge.

Defendant James Chambers was jury tried and sentenced to death for the capital murder of Jerry Lee Oestricker. We have exclusive appellate jurisdiction. Mo. Const, art. V, § 3. In this appeal, defendant assigns as error: (1) failure to instruct on self-defense; (2) denial of his motion for change of venue; (3) improper death qualification of the jury, and; (4) refusal to allow defendant to argue an adverse inference from the State’s decision not to call a certain witness. We affirm.

*529The first point of error posited in this appeal — that the trial court erred in refusing to…