State v. Driscoll

BILLINGS, Judge.

Defendant Robert Driscoll1 was convicted by a jury of capital murder, § 565.001, RSMo 1978 (repealed effective October 1, 1984), for the stabbing death of Thomas Jackson, a correctional officer assigned to the Missouri Training Center for Men in Moberly, Missouri. We have exclusive appellate jurisdiction of this criminal case because defendant has been sentenced to death. See Mo.Const. art. V, § 3.

In fixing death as the appropriate punishment, the jury found as a basis for the imposition of capital punishment the following statutory aggravating circumstances: (1) defendant had…