State v. Crawford

DIXON, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction of second degree murder, § 565.004, RSMo 1978, and sentence to life imprisonment. He contends that he should be given a new trial because of plain error in the state’s argument to the jury and error in the admission of defendant’s videotaped statement.

The victim was found in an attic of a house were defendant had been working. The cause of death, in the opinion of a pathologist, was strangulation. In his videotaped statement, the defendant admits strangling the victim.

*12Defendant complains about the following statements that were made by the state…