Court Opinion

ID: 9660667
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:18:13.299245+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:21.207728
License: Public Domain

BLACKMAR, Judge,
concurring.
I adhere to the views expressed in my dissenting opinion in State v. Mallett, 732 S.W.2d 527, 543 (Mo. banc 1987), and I agree with the conclusion of the court below that the case should have been sent elsewhere for trial when counsel advised the trial judge of the situation in Schuyler County.
The point about venue, however, was ruled adversely to the movant on the initial appeal and constitutes the law of the case, by which I am bound. I see no merit in any of the other grounds urged for upsetting the conviction, and so am obliged to concur in the judgment of reversal.