State v. Laws

SNYDER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict and judgment convicting appellant Leonard Laws of capital murder. § 565.001 RSMo. 1978. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for fifty years. The judgment is affirmed.

Appellant contends the trial court erred in: (1) failing to declare a mistrial when Norman Gilmore testified that appellant had been in prison for the last nine years and when Robert Gilmore testified in effect, that he could not remember making a statement because he had five different murders on his mind; (2) failing to…