State v. Moutray

MANFORD, Judge.

This is a direct appeal from a jury conviction for murder, second degree, in violation of § 565.021.1, RSMo Supp. 1984. The judgment is affirmed.

Appellant presents four points which, in summary, charge that the trial court erred (1) in failing to grant a new trial because appellant was denied a fair trial by an impartial jury; (2) in admitting, over objection, evidence of a prior statement of a state witness; (3) in the submission of an instruction on self-defense; and (4) in allowing certain comments, over objection, by the prosecution in final argument.

Appellant makes no…