State v. Bulloch

KENNEDY, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted upon a jury trial of tampering with physical evidence, § 575.100, RSMo 1986, and of arson, § 569.050, RSMo 1986.1 He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for tampering with physical evidence and to seven years’ imprisonment for arson, to be served consecutively. He has appealed both convictions, and the appeals have been consolidated here.

The jury could have believed from the evidence that the defendant, in connection with some perverted but consensual sex acts, killed his wife by asphyxiation. The asphyxiation resulted from tape which…