State v. Thomas

SEILER, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction of first degree murder of a cab driver, with a sentence of life imprisonment.

From the evidence in the case, the jury could reasonably have found the following to be the facts:

On Sunday evening, November 27, 1966, defendant, age 17, had been riding with six or seven other youths around the North Florissant and Cass Avenue neighborhood in St. Louis. The group was in two automobiles. Around 8:00 p. m., they went to the Greyhound bus station. One of the boys testified that he had told a detective in the investigation later that someone in the…