State v. Ritter

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of murder in the second degree in violation of § 565.004, RSMo.1978. A jury found him guilty and assessed punishment of thirty years’ imprisonment, and the trial court sentenced him accordingly.

On appeal, defendant alleges the trial court erred in refusing to give an instruction on voluntary intoxication, in overruling defendant’s motion for acquittal for insufficiency of the evidence, and in refusing to exclude certain inculpatory statements defendant made while he was intoxicated.

At trial, Debbie, the woman with whom defendant was…