Legal Opinion
State v. Russell
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided December 8, 1981No. 62196PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGGINS, Judge.
John C. Russell was convicted by a jury of robbery, first degree; his punishment was fixed at imprisonment for five years. Judgment was rendered accordingly; the Court of Appeals, Southern District, affirmed. The case was transferred by this Court to consider again whether the trial court erred by limiting defendant’s cross-examination of the juvenile who appeared as the principal witness against him.. The sufficiency of evidence to sustain the conviction is not in question. Affirmed.
The juvenile witness, Jackie Lee Hicks, Jr., had been the subject of a petition in juvenile…
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