Court Opinion

ID: 9773109
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Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:37:46.302746+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:50.208428
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DONNELLY, Judge,
dissenting.
In State v. Morgan, 592 S.W.2d 796, 803 (Mo. banc 1980), this Court held that “the felony relied on to prove intent in a felony-murder case is a lesser-included offense of the murder” — that the felony relied on to prove intent in a felony-murder case and the murder are, for constitutional purposes, the same offense.
Article I, § 19 of the Missouri Constitution provides that no person shall “be put again in jeopardy of life or liberty for the same offense, after being once acquitted by a jury; * * (Emphasis supplied).
Appellant was tried in January 1977 for the murder of Gladys Gregg. The felony relied on to prove intent in the murder case was robbery. Appellant was acquitted on the murder charge. She could not thereafter be convicted of robbery because, under Morgan, supra, the murder (submitted under the felony-murder doctrine) and the robbery were the same offense and she had been acquitted by a jury of the murder. Under the Missouri Double Jeopardy Clause, the conviction of robbery cannot be permitted to stand.
*130I would order the judgment of conviction reversed and the appellant discharged.
I respectfully dissent.