[DOWNLOAD] "State Missouri v. Stephen A. Martin" by Eastern District, Division Two Court of Appeals of Missouri # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Missouri v. Stephen A. Martin
- Author : Eastern District, Division Two Court of Appeals of Missouri
- Release Date : January 28, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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Appellant, Stephen A. Martin, was charged by indictment with two counts of armed criminal action and one count of assault
in the second degree. In a separate indictment, appellant was charged with first degree murder. The State of Missouri waived
the death penalty and the charges in both indictments were consolidated upon the State's motion. After a jury trial, which
began June 12, 1989, and lasted until June 16, 1989, appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree, second degree
assault and two counts of armed criminal action. The jury assessed punishment to be life imprisonment for murder, a concurrent
fifteen year term for assault, one consecutive term of fifteen years for the armed criminal action charge which related to
the murder, and a concurrent three year term for the armed criminal action charge which arose out of appellant's assault conviction.
We will first briefly summarize the facts of this case. Appellant and Barbara Henderson, the victim, had been living together along with the victim's thirteen year old daughter
and five year old daughter. Appellant suffered from a drinking problem which caused him to lose his employment as a research
engineer with Emerson Electric, a job which he had held for 10 years. His drinking and his trips to an alcohol treatment center
strained his relationship with the victim and the two of them parted company sometime around April of 1988. Appellant took
up residence in the basement of the victim's apartment building, when he wasn't in a treatment facility.