State v. Lomax

CRANDALL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Leslie Lomax, appeals from his conviction, after a jury trial, for capital murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of probation or parole for fifty years. We affirm.

Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. From the evidence, the jury reasonably could have found that defendant, acting with others, murdered Gregory Erson, an undercover police officer who was working a prostitution detail in a high crime area in St. Louis known as the “Stroll.”

Defendant first contends that the trial court erred in overruling his…