State v. Stidham

BOHLING, Commissioner.

James William Stidham appeals from a sentence of life imprisonment for the first degree murder of Walter Lee Donnell during the riot at the Missouri Penitentiary on the evening of September 22, 1954, in Cole County, Missouri. § 559.010. (Statutory references are to RSMo 1949 and V.A.M. S.) The indictment charged defendant, William R. Hoover, Jackie Lee Noble, Paul Edward Kenton, Rollie Laster, Don Wm. DeLapp and Joseph M. Vidauri with the commission of the offense. All were inmates of the penitentiary. Defendant’s case, upon his application for change of venue, was tried…