State v. Wilkerson

DONNELLY, Judge.

Pursuant to Rule 83.02, the Eastern District of the Court of Appeals, upon application of the State, ordered this cause transferred to this Court after filing an opinion reversing appellant’s second degree murder conviction and affirming his robbery and kidnapping convictions. Although we dispose of this case as if it were the original appeal, Mo.Const. Art. V, § 10, portions of the Court of Appeals opinion are incorporated, without quotation marks, in this opinion.

By the Eastern District’s order transferring the case to this Court, we are squarely confronted with an issue…