State v. McCormick

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

The sole issue on this appeal is whether appellant was denied his constitutional rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States by reason of the trial court’s refusal to grant his pretrial motion, made as a poor person, to take depositions and for stenographic services.

By the verdict of a jury appellant was found guilty of the commission of the crime of murder in the first degree. Having been found to be a second offender under § 556.280, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S., appellant was sentenced by the court to imprisonment for life in the…