State v. Mitchell

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Defendant, having waived his right to trial by jury, was tried to the court, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment for the commission of the crime of murder in the first degree. He here • contends solely that the evidence was insufficient to support such finding, having briefed the matter to this court by counsel who was present with him throughout the trial. The testimony of witnesses, bearing upon the judgment of conviction, follows:

On March 31, 1965, William DeVoto was in the Dutch Maid Grill, 1300 Hodia-mont Avenue in St. Louis, in the early morning…