State v. Raspberry

KENNETH R. LEWIS, Special Judge.

Defendant, Benny Louis Raspberry, was charged by indictment with murder in the first degree for allegedly inflicting upon one James Willie Graham fatal gunshot wounds on February 3, 1968, in Jackson County, Missouri. Defendant was found guilty by a jury as charged and sentenced to life imprisonment.

It is not contended on this appeal that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction. Therefore, the statement of the facts need only be in a summary form. The evidence on behalf of the state was that on the evening of February 2, 1968, at approximately nine…