State v. Haymon

SEILER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree under § 565.-004 RSMo 1978, 1 with a life sentence, 2 which puts jurisdiction in this court under Mo.Const. Art. V, § 3.

As defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, we condense the facts relating to the crime: On June 19, 1978, Richard Ford was driving his automobile eastward on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, with his cousin, Jerome Brown, seated to his right. Ford had stopped his car at an intersection traffic light when another car drove up on the right side and stopped next to him. There…