State v. Dodson

WELLIVER, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Cornelius Dodson appeals from a conviction on a jury verdict finding him guilty of second degree murder, § 565.004, RSMo 1978. Punishment was assessed at imprisonment for life, § 565.008(2), RSMo 1978, to run consecutively to any term or terms that he was then serving in the Department of Corrections. Jurisdiction of this appeal is vested in this Court. Mo. Const, art. V, § 3. Appellant alleges error in the trial court’s admission into evidence of a weapon fashioned from a screwdriver, which he claims was not established to be related to the death of the…