State v. McMillian

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

A jury convicted defendant Joe Henry McMillian of murder in the first degree and armed criminal action in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole on the murder charge and a consecutive eighty years on the armed criminal action charge. We affirm.

The sufficiency of the evidence to convict defendant is not in dispute. Therefore, the evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict. On the night of August 9, 1987, the victim, Roosevelt Pittman, was in the Depot Liquor Store.…