State v. Harris

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Rodney Earl Harris, was charged, tried and found guilty by a jury for the offense of murder in the second degree. § 559.020, RSMo 1969. He was sentenced under the Second Offender Act, § 556.280, by the court to fifty years in the department of corrections. He appeals. We affirm.

Since the appellant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence, we will state only those facts necessary for the disposition of the points raised on appeal.

A jury could reasonably find the following: William J. Kupfer, Jr., a man of approximately 60 years of age,…