State v. Reed
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Ralph ' S. Latshaw, Judge. It was error to permit State to bolster up tbe character of deceased, when no attack had been made upon his character.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Hon. Ralph ' S. Latshaw, Judge. It was error to permit State to bolster up tbe character of deceased, when no attack had been made upon his character. State v. Potter,'13 Kan. 316; State v. Thomas, 78 Mo. 343; State v. Barrett, 240 Mo. 175; State v. Nelson, 166 Mo. 203; State v. Jeger, 66 Mo. 180; State v. Jones, 191 Mo. 662; People v. Gallagher, 78 N. T. Supp. 67; State v. Grant, 79 Mo. 134. “It is clearly error to permit the introduction of evidence anticipatory of an attack on the character of a witness.” State v. Patrick, 107 Mo. 155. “It is error to…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, P. J.
Convicted of murder in the second degree in the criminal court of Jackson county, defendant appeals from a judgment of that court fixing his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.
Defendant Reed, a laboring man, dropped into Kansas City on June 27, 1912, apparently for the purpose of spending a small surplus which he had earned in railroad construction work at another place. He spent the following day about the saloons of Fifth street in Kansas City, where he met Clyde Holland, the deceased.
The testimony of W. F. Hall, the chief witness for the State, is that about the hour of eight p.…
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