State v. Johns

WELLIVER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of capital murder, § 565.001, RSMo 1978, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis and the jury, having found the aggravating circumstances required by law, imposed the death sentence. He now appeals assigning numerous grounds for reversal. We have jurisdiction under Mo. Const, art. V, § 3. We affirm.

The evidence adduced at trial established that on February 18, 1982, an Onyx Gas Station in the City of St. Louis was robbed of approximately $248. A customer who stopped at the station shortly before 8 p.m. discovered the body of the seventeen year old…