State v. Leigh
Supreme Court of Missouri
1Opinion of the Court
BARRETT, Commissioner.
Lonnie W. Leigh, serving a sentence for ravishing a child of eleven (State v. Leigh, Mo., 423 S.W.2d 690), has been found guilty of forcible sodomy upon another prison inmate. A jury was unable to agree on the punishment and the court sentenced him to four years’ imprisonment.
In brief the circumstances were that on May 21, 1969, Merrill Roland, age 23 and serving four years’ imprisonment for burglary and stealing, was an inmate of the Missouri Training Center for Men at Moberly. About 9:30 in the evening as he traveled down the catwalk past cell 222 someone unknown to…
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2Cases cited10 opinions
- State v. KingSupreme Court of Missouri · 1938
- State v. EdwardsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1968
- State v. LeeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1966
- State v. GraySupreme Court of Missouri · 1968
- State v. MooringSupreme Court of Missouri · 1969
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3Cited by16 opinions
- State v. PartonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1972
- State v. HowardMissouri Court of Appeals · 1978
- State v. OgleMissouri Court of Appeals · 1984
- State v. MorrisMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
- State v. SturgellMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
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