State v. Wallace

HENLEY, Presiding Judge.

Joseph L. Wallace, defendant, appeals from a judgment sentencing him to imprisonment for life on his conviction by a jury of first degree murder. The notice of appeal was filed prior to January 1, 1972, the effective date of the 1970 amendment of Mo.Const. Art. V, § 3, V.A.M.S 1 . We affirm.

Defendant contends that there was not sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction. Púrtis Poo! testified that he was in Jim’s Service Station located at 17th and Cass in the City of St. Louis on the evening of November 4, 1970, at about 7:30 o’clock, talking with its owner, James…