State v. King

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from sentence on jury verdict of life imprisonment for murder in the first degree.

At approximately 7:00 A.M., March 31, 1967, L. I. Denton was shot and killed in the backyard of his residence in East Prairie, Missouri. Neighbors heard several shots fired and saw Mr. Denton running from the garage in the rear of the yard toward the house. He was struck by at least four bullets and fell before he reached the house. Denton was dead when neighbors and his wife, who had been in the house, ran to where he had fallen.

No one saw the person who fired the shots. The…