State v. Jones

ALDEN A. STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Wilson Herman Jones, charged pursuant to the Second Offender Act (§ 556.280 RSMo 1969), was found guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree (§ 559.020 RSMo 1969) and sentenced by the court to life imprisonment. He has appealed from the ensuing judgment. We affirm.

A jury reasonably could find from the State’s evidence that in the morning of October 1,1977, appellant went to the home of Palmer Smith in Cape Girardeau, and the two then drove in Smith’s truck to the home of Wilda Faye Leeder. From there the trio drove to a liquor store where they met Anna…