State v. Weeks

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

A Greene County jury found defendant Earl Albert Weeks guilty of the first degree murder of an elderly lady store owner during the course of a robbery and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied and following allocution, sentence was imposed and judgment entered. We affirm.

A nine-inch snow blanketed the Ozarks on the early evening of Saturday, November 30, 1974, as a 1966 Ford automobile bearing Iowa license plates drove north from Springfield on Highway 13. The car was occupied by defendant Weeks, Ralph Parcel, and Joseph…