State v. Hankins

ALDEN A. STOCKARD, Senior Judge.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of capital murder, § 565.001 RSMo 1978, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for fifty years.

• Appellant contends that the trial court erred in failing to sustain his motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of all the evidence. This necessitates a rather detailed statement of the evidence.

On February 12, 1979, when appellant returned to his home in Springfield, Missouri he saw police cars at his house. He then drove to his brother’s house and called Sharon Walburn, with…