State v. Willis

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

By verdicts of a jury, appellant was found guilty of the commission of three felonies upon which it assessed punishment as follows: Count I, murder in the first degree, life imprisonment; Count II, burglary in the first degree, 15 years imprisonment; and Count III, armed criminal action, life imprisonment. In accordance with the jury’s verdicts, the court sentenced appellant and committed him to the Missouri Department of Adult Institutions, the sentences to run concurrently.

The murder victim, Vernon Lacy, Sr., lived at 2526 Norton Street in Kansas City, Missouri,…