Noble v. State

HIGGINS, Commissioner.

Appeal from denial, without evidentiary hearing, of motion under Criminal Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., to vacate and set aside judgment of conviction of murder, first degree.

Jackie Lee Noble was indicted jointly with William R. Hoover, Paul Edward Kenton, James William Stidham, Rollie Laster, Don Wm. DeLapp, and Joseph M. Vidauri, and charged with first degree murder in the death of Walter Lee Donnell on September 22, 1954. All were inmates of the Missouri state penitentiary and Donnell’s death occurred during a prison riot on that date. Upon separate trial on March 29, 1955,…