State v. Neal

RENDLEN, Judge.

This appeal is from defendant’s conviction of second degree murder under § 559.-020 RSMo 1969 and sentence of fifty-five years imprisonment. We affirm.

Defendant makes two assignments of error: (1) the court erred in permitting a police officer to testify that state’s witness Austin Jenkins had not been booked for the same murder with which defendant had been charged, because such testimony was irrelevant and prejudicial; and (2) the court erred in refusing a mistrial when the prosecutor suggested, in closing argument, that the police suspected defendant was guilty of the crime,…