Legal Opinion

Johnson v. State

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided April 10, 1972No. 56421PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Austin V. Johnson has appealed from the order of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County denying his three separate motions, consolidated for hearing, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 27.26, V.A.M.R., to withdraw his plea of guilty entered on December 8, 1961, in each case to first degree murder, and to set aside the judgment and concurrent sentence in each case of life imprisonment.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Johnson, by stabbing her with a butcher knife. He was charged by information in two other cases with the murder of his…

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2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Santobello v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. State v. MountjoySupreme Court of Missouri · 1967
  3. McQueen v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1971
  4. Shoemake v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1971
  5. Drew v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1969

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. State v. TwenterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1991
  2. O'NEAL v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1989
  3. Knight v. M.H. Siegfried Real Estate, Inc.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1982
  4. Barker v. StateMissouri Court of Appeals · 1974
  5. State v. JacksonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1974

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