The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that jurors deliberated about two hours before acquitting 42-year-old Glynn Smith of first-degree murder and armed criminal action counts.
Smith was accused of killing 50-year-old Sybil Ann Brandon in Smith’s apartment in November 2013 after a night of partying.
Brandon’s body was found 25 days later in her abandoned car’s trunk in Madison, Illinois. The newspaper reports that the prosecution’s case hinged heavily on testimony of Clarence Hill, who told jurors he was an alcoholic, homeless and sometimes struggled to remember things.