State v. Shaw

WELLIVER, Judge.

Appellant, an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary,1 was convicted by a jury of capital murder, § 565.001, RSMo 1978,2 for the stabbing death of Waiter Farrow, a penitentiary corrections officer. The jury recommended the death penalty pursuant to § 565.008(1). This Court has exclusive appellate jurisdiction. Mo.Const. art. V, § 3. We affirm both the conviction and the sentence of death.

I

The facts are not in dispute.

On July 16, 1979, Officer Farrow was assigned to his usual position of supervisor of the twelve to fifteen inmates, including appellant, who worked in the…