State v. Davison

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from convictions on two counts of first degree murder, § 559.007, RSMo 1975 Supp., for which appellant was sentenced to concurrent terms of life imprisonment.

Raynard Davison was charged with the deaths of Marie Simms and Arthur “A. W.” Isbell which occurred on January 16, 1976. Simms, age 70, and Isbell, age 53, lived together in .Simms’ flat at 5104 Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in St. Louis.

Oscar Reed, who was 10 years old at the time of the crime, Reed’s five-year-old brother, Lenny, and 10-year-old Charles Smith were headed toward the Reeds’ grandfather’s flat…