Singh v. State

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

Singh’s pattern for abrupt endings to his marriages has led to this appeal. While serving in the fifth year of a 10 year manslaughter sentence for killing a wife, he escaped, remarried and killed this wife. He pled not guilty by reason of a mental disease, and in 1982 was committed under § 552.040.2, RSMo 1986 to the Fulton State Hospital, having been found a danger to society.

He now has filed an application under § 552.040.9 for a conditional release from the Department of Mental Health, and, after a hearing, the court found his mental illness “in remission on medication”…