State v. Rutter

RICHARD B. TEITELMAN, Judge.

Appellant, Charles Lee Rutter, appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Iron County following a jury conviction of murder in the first degree, section 565.020, and armed criminal action, section 571.015. 1

After opinion by the Court of Appeals, Southern District, the case was transferred to this Court. 2 Mo. Const art. V, section 10.

The sufficiency of the evidence supporting Appellant’s convictions is not in dispute. This appeal concerns seven of the trial court’s rulings on: (1) admissibility of evidence seized without a warrant (testimony of two police…