State v. Walker

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, James Walker, appeals his conviction, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree. Section 565.020, RSMo (1986). He was sentenced to life imprisonment without probation or parole. We affirm.

Defendant claims the trial court erred: (1) by allowing the State to use his extrajudicial statement to impeach his trial testimony; (2) by submitting a second degree murder instruction that prejudicially deviated from MAI-CR3d; and (3) by not grant-*45mg defendant a new trial based upon juror misconduct.

Defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence. On June 7,…