State v. Hanson

GREENE, Judge.

On April 13, 1977, defendant Calvin Hanson, Jr., after jury trial, was convicted of the crime of capital murder in violation of § 559.009. 1 By reason of such conviction, defendant was thereafter sentenced by the trial court to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 50 years, pursuant to § 559.011, which statute was in force at the time of sentence. Defendant then filed this appeal. We affirm.

The basic facts in the case are as follows. On July 5, 1976, Ollie Adkins, the victim, left his home in Pacific, Missouri, between 9 and 10 a. m. He was going to Springfield,…