State v. Wright

The appellant, a negro, has twice been convicted of murder in the first degree for shooting and killing Dr. J.T. McCampbell, a negro druggist in Kansas City. On the former appeal, reported in337 Mo. 441, 85 S.W.2d 7, the cause was reversed and remanded for failure to instruct on second degree murder. The appellant has filed no brief. There are sixteen assignments in his motion for new trial. Twelve of these are too general to comply with the new trial statute, Section 3735, Revised Statutes 1929 (Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 3275). Two of the remaining four assignments complain that there was no…