State v. Goodwin

HOLSTEIN, Judge.

Defendant Paul Goodwin was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death following a jury trial held in St. Louis County circuit court. Goodwin appeals, raising nine points of error. This Court has exclusive appellate jurisdiction. Mo. Const, art. V, sec. S. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

FACTS

This Court reviews the facts in a light most favorable to the verdict. State v. Link, 25 S.W.3d 136, 140 (Mo. banc), cert. denied, - U.S. -, 121 S.Ct. 634, 148 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000).

Joan Crotts, a widow in her sixties, lived alone next door to a boardinghouse in St.…