Legal Opinion
State v. Johnson
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided December 31, 1973No. KCD 26356PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Judge.
Upon an indictment of first degree murder of one Leonard Peters, appellant was convicted by a verdict of a jury of second degree murder and his punishment was assessed and adjudged to be 99 years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections, with full credit for time previously spent in jail.
The sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict (except as to the cause of death) is not challenged. Suffice it to relate that on November 20, 1971, near a restaurant at 2818 Troost in Kansas City, Missouri, appellant struck Peters upon the head with a pistol. Peters fell to the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Steele v. WoodsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1959
- State v. AndersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1964
- Jones v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
- Zeigenbein Ex Rel. Zeigenbein v. ThornsberrySupreme Court of Missouri · 1966
- Hornberger v. St. Louis Public Service CompanySupreme Court of Missouri · 1962
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3Cited by14 opinions
- State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1997
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Missouri · 1997
- State v. JohnsonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1976
- State v. CandelaMissouri Court of Appeals · 1996
- State v. WoolfordMissouri Court of Appeals · 1976
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