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- Title: State Missouri v. Roosevelt Martin
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2
- Release Date : January 10, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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Roosevelt Martin, a Negro boy, age 18, and four other Negro boys, Steve John Morris, Calvin Lee Hayes, Torrence Henderson
and James Allen Caldwell, were jointly indicted for the forcible rape of Cathy, a white girl, age 18. State v. Harris, 150
Mo. 56, 51 S.W. 481. Upon a separate trial a jury found Roosevelt guilty and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment. In
the trial of his case he was represented by hired counsel, a lawyer experienced in the defense of criminal cases. He has been
allowed to prosecute this appeal as a poor person, has been furnished a full transcript and is represented in this court by
the Legal Aid and Defender Society of Kansas City. In very brief outline the facts were that on July 16, 1966, about 11:30 in the evening Cathy and her boyfriend Charles, after
attending a show and a party, were parked in his automobile in a secluded area near the ball diamond in Swope Park. Five Negro
boys, after a fight with Charles, took Cathy from the automobile, gang raped her, beat her about the head, broke her jaw and
otherwise assaulted her. They also beat and otherwise assaulted Charles. Upon this appeal there is no question as to the sufficiency
of the evidence; two questions only have been briefed and argued, (1), it is contended that Damon Jenkins, a state's witness,
was an accomplice and that the court prejudicially erred in refusing to give an instruction that the "testimony of an accomplice
should be received with a great caution," and (2) that the court erred in overruling his motion to be permitted "to make a
transcription of the testimony given before the grand jury."
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