State v. Burns
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pemiscot Circuit Court. — lion. Sterling II. McCarty, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to rebuke the prosecuting attorney for continuously asking questions that this court had held was reversible error in the former trial. State v. Burns, 213 S. W. 116.' (2) The court erred in refusing to rebuke J. S. Gossom, hired counsel for State, for an unwarranted attack upon defendant and statements out of the record in his closing argument to the jury.
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Appeal from Pemiscot Circuit Court. — lion. Sterling II. McCarty, Judge. (1) The court erred in refusing to rebuke the prosecuting attorney for continuously asking questions that this court had held was reversible error in the former trial. State v. Burns, 213 S. W. 116.' (2) The court erred in refusing to rebuke J. S. Gossom, hired counsel for State, for an unwarranted attack upon defendant and statements out of the record in his closing argument to the jury. State v. Davis, 217 S. W. 91; State v. Dozier, 177 S. W. 360; State v. Spivey, 191 Mo. 112; State v. Reppley, 2.13 S. W. 480. (3) The…
1Opinion of the Court
This case was here upon a former appeal and was reversed and remanded on account of errors committed during the progress of the trial. It will be found reported in 278 Mo. 441, 213 S.W. 115. The facts relating to the homicide are not materially different from what they were in the former trial.
The evidence on behalf of the State, briefly stated, tends to show, in substance, that A.P. Bumpas lived at the town of Cooter, in Pemiscot County, Missouri; that his wife was in charge of the post office in said town, and that, with his wife and two children, they lived in the building occupied as a…
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