State v. Bryant

CRIST, Judge.

Appeal from a jury conviction of capital murder, for which defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for fifty years. The state did not seek the death penalty. We affirm.

As the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the conviction is not challenged, the facts may be briefly stated. Decedent, a ten-year-old girl, arrived in St. Louis on Monday, May 31, 1982, to visit her ex-step-grandparents. After spending a few days with them she went to visit her maternal grandparents, who also lived in St. Louis, on Saturday June 5. She was not…