State v. Jones

SMITH, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of manslaughter by a jury and resultant ten-year sentence by the Court. We affirm.

The evidence warranted a finding that defendant and two other persons forced their way into a home on Belt Avenue in St. Louis at gunpoint and shot to death Arthur Jones as he came down the steps from the second floor in response to the invaders’ request that two other persons come downstairs. At trial defendant attempted to attack eyewitness identification of himself as one of the killers. Those eyewitness identifications formed the basis for the conviction.

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