Noble v. State

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

As mirrored by this appeal from an adverse ruling on a Rule 27.26 motion, the aftermath of the 1954 prison riot at the Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri, still stalks the courts of this state. During the course of the riot an inmate was murdered. Shortly after the riot was quelled Jack L. Noble,1 appellant herein, and six fellow inmates were jointly indicted by a Cole County Grand Jury for first degree murder. Severances were subsequently obtained and each accused was separately tried.

*269Noble stood trial in the Circuit Court of Cole County where a jury on…