State v. Richardson

SNYDER, Judge.

A jury found appellant Ronald Richardson guilty of first-degree murder, § 565.-003 RSMo.1978, and he appeals from the trial court judgment and sentence of life imprisonment in the Missouri Department of Corrections. The jury found that appellant and a companion had beaten to death and robbed a seventy-two year old man in an alley in north St. Louis. The judgment is affirmed.

Richardson’s nine points of error can be consolidated into six points. First, appellant challenges on equal protection grounds the disparity between the judgments and sentences rendered against him and a…