State v. Powell

DOWD, Judge.

Defendant, Hubert Eugene Powell, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict which found him guilty of murder in the first degree under § 565.020, RSMo 1986, for the death of his son, Hubert Clayton Powell. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. We affirm.

The jury could reasonably have found the following. On the evening of June 21, 1985 defendant, his son and his five-year-old grandson drove into the nearby town of Foley to buy cigarettes and to drink a few beers at the Foley Lounge. Upon returning to his trailer home, Clayton Powell…