State v. Allen

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

By the verdict of a jury appellant was found guilty of capital murder, first degree murder and armed criminal action. For the offenses, he was given these respective sentences: life imprisonment without eligibility for parole for 50 years; life imprisonment; and life imprisonment, the three sentences to run consecutively.

The victims were aged Maurice and Rachel Hudnall, who had been husband and wife for 67 or 68 years, residing in Independence, Missouri.

Eric Wilson was a co-defendant charged with capital murder of both victims and alternatively with first degree…