Legal Opinion
State v. Bell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided August 19, 1997No. 79186Published
1Opinion of the Court
950 S.W.2d 482 (1997)
STATE of Missouri, Respondent,
v.
Winston BELL, Appellant.
No. 79186.
Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.
August 19, 1997.
Craig Johnston, Asst. Public Defender, Columbia, for Appellant.
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General, Cassandra Dolgin, Assistant Attorney General, Jefferson City, for Respondent.
WHITE, Judge.
Winston Bell was convicted of the first degree murder of his wife, Fay Allen, and sentenced to death. Several witnesses testified at trial that Ms. Allen told them of numerous previous incidents of abuse by her husband. This hearsay evidence was erroneously…
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