Stories from Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Jury deliberations could begin as early as this evening in the Christopher Collings' capital murder trial. This morning, on the eighth day of testimony in the trial, Barry County Prosecutor Johnnie Cox called one witness to the stand, and at the conclusion of the witness' testimony, he announced that the state was resting its case...

A jury has found Christopher Collings guilty of murder in the first degree. Five men and seven women, who have been sequestered in Rolla for the past week and a half, returned their verdict after deliberating for just over four hours. The verdict came at the end of an eight-day trial and on the heels of closing statements offered by both the prosecution and defense late Tuesday afternoon. ...