State v. Davis

RENDLEN, Judge.

Found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death for slaying his wife, defendant’s appeal falls within the ambit of the Court’s exclusive appellate jurisdiction, Mo. Const, art. V, § 3, as well as the appeal from the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion seeking postconviction relief. In this consolidated proceeding both judgments are affirmed.

I. DIRECT APPEAL

Defendant first challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction of murder in the first degree and, when examining this issue, we consider the evidence and all inferences reasonably drawn…