State v. Flowers

DONNELLY, Judge.

Appellant Connie Lynn Flowers was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced by the trial court to life imprisonment without parole for fifty years. This Court has exclusive appellate jurisdiction under Mo. Const, art. V, § 3 (as effective January 2, 1979).

The handcuffed body of James Bundy was found the morning of February 20, 1977, in a ditch beside a gravel road. He had been shot three times through the head. An investigation of the victim’s house and grounds revealed that a violent struggle had occurred, and a trail of blood led from the house to the gravel road in…