State v. Owens

BARDGETT, Judge.

Appellant Melvin Sylvester Owens was tried and convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree. The jury assessed punishment at life imprisonment and the court entered judgment and sentence in accordance with the jury verdict. Owens appeals. This court has jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3, Const, of Mo. 1945, as amended, V.A.M.S. Garrett v. State, Mo., 481 S.W.2d 225.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not questioned. Under the state’s evidence the jury could find that about midnight on October 30, 1969, appellant and four others, Ronnell Wheeler, George Mayfield, Roscoe Ford, and…