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State v. Anderson

Citations

  • 515 S.W.2d 534
  • 1974 Mo. LEXIS 698

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  • recognizing the statutory defense of partial responsibility or diminished capacity
  • adopting part of the model penal code means that the legislature adopted the interpretation placed thereon in the commentary by the drafters
  • “premeditation may be reasonably inferred from the bare hand strangulation of defendant’s victim and the subsequent application of the towel for two or three minutes longer to make sure he was dead”
  • jury reasonably inferred premeditation when the defendant strangled the victim with his bare hands and then subsequently applied a towel for two or three minutes longer to make sure he was dead

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Judges: Finch, Donnelly, Seiler, Morgan, Holman, Bardgett, Jj-, Henley

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