Legal Opinion
State v. McConnell
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided October 6, 1975No. KCD 27756PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT R. WELBORN, Special Judge.
Appeal from judgment of conviction and sentence to life imprisonment, entered on jury verdict finding Waddell McConnell guilty of murder in the first degree.
On February 8, 1974, Mr. Hugh Buss was found stabbed to death in his tailor shop in Kansas City. Sometime in March, Robert Land, in police custody on other charges, told police that he had gone with Waddell McConnell to Buss’s shop and that McConnell had killed Buss after they had robbed him. McConnell was arrested and made a statement to police admitting his participation in the crime. The sole point of…
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