Carpenter v. State
Supreme Court of Missouri
1Opinion of the Court
BARRETT, Commissioner.
Charged with murder in the first degree in shooting his homosexual paramour, Alfred Arnold, Jerome Carpenter on May 22, 1961, with experienced hired counsel, withdrew his previous plea of not guilty and entered a plea of guilty. The court instead of immediately sentencing the defendant or requiring a presentence investigation and report heard evidence and conducted a hearing directed solely to the punishment to be inflicted, life imprisonment or death. In the course of that hearing, in the statement of the prosecuting attorney, by medical evidence, a psychiatrist called…
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