State v. Danforth

NUGENT, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit capital murder, § 564.016,1 and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. On appeal, she contends that § 564.016 is unconstitutionally vague, that the statute does not make conspiracy to commit capital murder a crime, that much of the state’s evidence was hearsay and inadmissible, and that the jury instructions were erroneous. We affirm.

On August 22,1980, the decaying body of Dr. Duncan Danforth, a wealthy 75-year-old retiree, was found fifteen feet off a rural road between Greenview and Climax Springs, in Camden…