State v. Nalls

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

A jury convicted defendant, Steve Nalls, of murder in the first degree, § 565.020 RSMo 1986, and armed criminal action, § 571.015 RSMo 1986. The trial court sentenced defendant as a persistent and prior offender to life without parole for the murder conviction and to a consecutive life term for the armed criminal action conviction. On appeal, defendant argues the trial court erred in: (1) overruling defendant’s challenges for cause to two venirepersons; and (2) its instructions on self-defense and reasonable doubt We affirm.

On October 25, 1989, Kevin McCoy, the…