Legal Opinion
State v. Peters
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided December 27, 1976No. KCD 28134PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Chief Judge.
Appellant was found guilty by the verdict of a jury of the commission of the crime of murder in the first degree of Dr. Lynn D. Weller. The court found that appellant was a second offender under the allegations of the information substituted for the indictment of a grand jury, and sentenced him to life imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.
There are two dispositive issues. The first is the admission of incriminating evidence of a taped conversation with appellant, while he was in jail awaiting trial, and witness Lila Joyce Meek, who had a “bug” in her hair at…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Spano v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by8 opinions
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