[DOWNLOAD] "State Missouri v. John Albert Bibbs" by Division No. 1 Supreme Court of Missouri ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Missouri v. John Albert Bibbs
- Author : Division No. 1 Supreme Court of Missouri
- Release Date : January 14, 1970
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
Description
Defendant was charged with the offense of assault with intent to kill with malice aforethought under the provisions of § 559.180. 1 He was also charged with three prior felony convictions. See § 556.280. The jury found defendant guilty of the offense charged and the court fixed his punishment at imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years. Defendant has appealed from the ensuing judgment. We affirm. At about 7:30 p.m. on January 17, 1969, Officers Mitchell and Holloway of the St. Louis Police Department were patrolling the area of Goodfellow and Page Avenue in an unmarked patrol car. They were following a 1962 Chevrolet to which their attention was drawn by the way it was being driven. They checked their sheet listing stolen automobiles and saw that the license number on the Chevrolet was listed on the sheet. Their car did not have the usual red dome light of regular patrol cars so they turned on the flasher for the four headlights and the siren and when the driver sought to escape they pursued the car. At a point on Blackstone the driver of the Chevrolet slowed and then suddenly jammed on the brakes and stopped the car. The driver of the police car was able to make a sudden stop, with his front bumper about three feet behind the rear of the Chevrolet. As the policemen were preparing to alight from the car the driver of the Chevrolet suddenly turned toward the rear and fired three shots through the back window in the direction of their car. The Chevrolet then started forward, but the officers in the police car were delayed because their engine had died and they had difficulty in starting. However, they immediately made an emergency broadcast over the police radio advising that they had been shot at from a car and giving a description of the car and driver. After their car was started they tried to follow the Chevrolet but soon lost sight of it. They cruised in the area until they did find it, empty, a short time later. They searched the surrounding area without success and then returned to their headquarters, the 7th District Police Station. None of the shots struck the car or its occupants.