Legal Opinion

State v. Hollis

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided June 29, 1979No. KCD 29582PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SWOFFORD, Chief Judge.

The appellant (defendant) was convicted of murder in the second degree by jury verdict and he was sentenced to 99 years and 1 day in the Missouri Department of Corrections and this appeal followed in due course.

The facts appearing from the record pertinent to the issues on this appeal may be thus summarized:

In the early morning hours of July 26, 1975, Mrs. Lelia M. Neely returned to her home at 7453 Walrond in Kansas City, Missouri and found her husband, Ernest K. Neely, on the bed in their bedroom covered with blood and' apparently lifeless. She fled from the home and…

2Cases cited36 opinions

  1. Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  4. United States v. EwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  5. State v. CaffeySupreme Court of Missouri · 1970

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3Cited by15 opinions

  1. State v. BucklesSupreme Court of Missouri · 1982
  2. State v. RichmondMissouri Court of Appeals · 1980
  3. State v. FrazierMissouri Court of Appeals · 1996
  4. State v. PhroperMissouri Court of Appeals · 1981
  5. State v. PowersMissouri Court of Appeals · 1981

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