State v. Holt

SEILER, Judge.

Patricia Joye Holt was found murdered in her home in Bragg City, Missouri on November 23, 1976. In force on that date were § 559.005, RSMo 1975 Supp., defining the crime of capital murder 1 and § 559.020, RSMo 1969, defining second degree murder. Defendant, husband of the victim, was charged by amended information that he “did then and there willfully, unlawfully, knowingly, deliberately, feloniously, pre-meditatedly, and of his malice aforethought kill one Patricia Joye Holt by offering to pay one Roger Dale Jackson One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00) to kill Patricia Joye Holt and…