State v. Blackmon

SMITH, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction by a jury of first degree murder, robbery, assault with intent to kill with malice, and armed criminal action. The court sentenced defendant to consecutive terms of life imprisonment, twenty years, thirty-five years and five years. On appeal defendant challenges only the conviction for murder.

The evidence at trial was largely circumstantial but would support a finding that defendant and Willie Cordell robbed the *293Beneficial Finance Company on Grand Avenue in St. Louis with a gun and that during the course of the robbery defendant shot and…