Legal Opinion
State v. Bursley
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided July 6, 1976No. KCD 28183PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT R. WELBORN, Special Judge.
On a jury-waived trial, Earl Bursley was found guilty on two counts of sodomy. He was sentenced to consecutive terms of 20 and 15 years. This appeal followed.
The state’s evidence was designed to show that events out of which the charges arose occurred August 3, 1973, at the Green Crest Motel in Jackson County, Missouri. Appellant Bursley was an itinerant trucker. He had employed two boys to assist him. One, Gary C-, then around 15 years of age, had been employed as a result of a chance meeting between Bursley and Gary’s mother in a Jackson County restaurant.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Phillip Coltrane v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- State v. DaytonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1976
- State v. DaytonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1976
- State v. TevisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1911
- State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1950
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3Cited by8 opinions
- State v. EllisMissouri Court of Appeals · 1986
- State v. LoaziaMissouri Court of Appeals · 1992
- State v. KuzmaMissouri Court of Appeals · 1988
- State v. WoodsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1986
- State v. RussellMissouri Court of Appeals · 1979
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