State v. Burton

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Darryl Burton, appeals conviction of capital murder, § 565.001 RSMo 1978, and armed criminal action, § 571.015 RSMo 1978. He was sentenced to fifty years imprisonment without probation for capital murder and a consecutive twenty-five year sentence for armed criminal action.

Defendant claims the trial court erred in: (1) overruling defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal because there was no substantial evidence to support the convictions; (2) overruling defendant’s motion to suppress identification; (3) allowing an impermissible reference to defendant’s…