State v. Cox

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Donald Garfield Cox, was charged, tried and found guilty by a jury of murder in the first degree and sentenced by the court to life imprisonment. § 559.010, RSMo 1969. He appeals. On this appeal he raises two contentions: that the trial court erred (1) in permitting the state on redirect examination to interrogate a state’s witness concerning prior statements which were consistent with direct examination but inconsistent with statements made on cross-examination, and (2) in precluding the defendant from testifying as to his “movements and…