State v. Martin

FLANIGAN, Judge.

A jury found defendant Robert Scott Martin guilty of the offense of capital murder, § 565.001, 1 and he was sentenced to imprisonment for life without eligibility for probation or parole for 50 years. The victim was Vesta Martin, defendant’s stepmother. Mrs. Martin was fatally shot in her home near Waynesville by James Murphy at approximately 11 p.m. on May 15, 1981. The state’s evidence showed that Murphy, who admitted the killing, did so pursuant to a “contract” between Murphy and Ron Wood, and that Wood, in hiring Murphy to do the killing for $10,000, did so at the…