STATE v. PARKUS

No. 69274.

753 S.W.2d 881 (1988)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Steven Wesley PARKUS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy A. McKerrow, Columbia, for appellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Elizabeth Levin Ziegler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


RENDLEN, Judge.

Found guilty of murder in the first degree, § 565.020.1, RSMo 1986 (effective Oct. 1, 1984), for the brutal strangulation of Mark Steffenhagen, appellant was sentenced to death. The cause falls within the exclusive appellate jurisdiction of this Court. Mo. Const. art. V, § 3, and we affirm.

Viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict, the jury could have found the following: On November 24, 1985, Mark Steffenhagen and appellant...

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