State v. Jones

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant appeals from the judgment entered after a jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree and armed criminal action. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murder conviction and a concurrent term of life imprisonment for the armed criminal action conviction. We affirm.

We review the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict. State v. Shurn, 866 S.W.2d 447, 455 (Mo. banc 1993).

In the early afternoon of January 12,1994, Tyree Johnson was walking on Highland Avenue in the City of St. Louis. Johnson saw defendant and the victim…