State v. Newman

ROBERT R. WELBORN, Commissioner.

A jury in the Jasper County Circuit Court found Jack Edward Newman guilty of mur*783der in the first degree in the death of Burnal Ray Brown in the perpetration of a robbery. § 565.003, RSMo 1978. This appeal is from the ensuing judgment and sentence to life imprisonment.

Burnal Ray Brown, a resident of the Webb City area in Jasper County, made a practice of carrying on his person a considerable amount of cash in the form of a roll of bills, secured by a rubber band, and kept in the front pocket of his trousers. According to his wife, Brown usually carried from…