State v. Simpson

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant, Frank Simpson, was jury-tried and convicted of the crime of conspiracy to commit first degree murder, § 564.016, 1 and thereafter sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment as punishment for the crime.

On appeal, Simpson asserts the trial court erred (1) in overruling his motion for new trial and submitting the case to the jury because the State had not proved all elements of the crime of conspiracy, (2) in admitting into evidence a tape recording which implicated Simpson in a conspiracy plot, and allowing the jury to peruse a written transcript of that recording while it was…