State v. Jordan

CRIST, Presiding Judge.

Appeal from a jury conviction for murder in the second degree. Defendant was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. We affirm.

Defendant was first convicted on this charge on October 26, 1979. This conviction was reversed. State v. Jordan, 627 S.W.2d 290 (Mo. banc 1982). The retrial began on October 12, 1982, and defendant was convicted on October 14, 1982.

On October 4, 1978, at about 1:00 a.m., after a dispute concerning payment for some drinks, a St. Louis bartender asked defendant and his two companions to leave the lounge where they had been drinking. The three men went…