State v. Gordon

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Kenneth Lowell Gordon appeals from a judgment and sentence of the Jackson County Circuit Court of ten years’ imprisonment on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with malice. Section 559.180, RS Mo 1959, V.A.M.S.

On October 16, 1963, Steven Wayne Belr lew, an employee of the Automatic Canteen Company, was driving a truck used to service vending machines. He stopped at the Western Auto Company building at 20th and Grand in Kansas City and entered the building to service machines. Upon returning to his truck, he saw a man whom he identified as Kenneth Lowell Gordon…