State v. Cornman

RENDLEN, Judge.

Found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to commit murder, § 564.016,1 (Count I), and of assault in the first degree, § 565.050, (Count II), defendant’s punishment was assessed at 10 years for the conspiracy and 30 years for the assault with terms to run consecutively. After affirmance in the Southern District transfer was granted and we determine the cause as though on original appeal. Mo. Const., art. V, § 10.

Defendant was charged in Count I with conspiracy to commit murder by agreeing with others to kill Harrel D. “Red” Sims, business manager and secretary-treasurer of Laborers’…