State v. Bradley

VAN OSDOL, C.-

[ 558] Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree. His punishment was assessed at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. He has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

There was substantial evidence tending to show that defendant, who formerly lived at Moberly, had entered into a conspiracy with four others (Herman Alva Robinson, William F. Wiley, Jack Warren Babcock and Arthur Schofield) to rob; and that the conspirators, including defendant, “shortly after midnight” in the morning of ■Sunday, December 7, 1947, pursuant to the conspiracy, participated in the robbery…