State v. Parcel

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

Defendant Ralph Edison Parcel was convicted of felony murder [§ 559.010, RSMo 1969 1 and sentenced to life imprisonment. In this appeal he challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction and claims the trial court committed reversible error in failing to grant him a change of venue from Greene County and in admitting certain evidence at his trial. We affirm.

Defendant’s confederate, Earl Albert Weeks, was earlier convicted in a separate trial of the brutal slaying of 81-year-old Lena Cukerbaum, a rural storekeeper, during the course of a robbery. The…