State v. Allen

PREWITT, Chief Judge.

Defendant was charged with capital murder in St. Charles County. She was accused of killing her husband, Lloyd Allen, “by poisoning him with ethylene glycol between March, 1982, and November 1, 1982”. Venue was changed to Phelps County. Following jury trial defendant was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole until she had served fifty years. Defendant appeals.

Defendant’s first point states that the trial court erred in calling, at the state’s request, Norma Hawkins, the defendant’s daughter, as a court’s witness, “thus…