State v. Wright

The appellant, a negro, was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, at the March Term, 1933, and his punishment assessed at death. He was charged in the information with the murder of Dr. J. T. McCampbell, a negro druggist, in his store located at the corner of Vine and Howard streets, in Kansas City, on March 15, 1933.

I. The appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict. The evidence on behalf of the State shows that on March 15, 1933, about five p. m., the appellant entered the drug store owned and operated by…