State v. Mansfield

BARDGETT, Judge.

Appellant Glenn Mansfield was charged with conventional murder in the second degree (§ 565.004, RSMo 1978), tried by jury and convicted of the charge with punishment assessed at life imprisonment. The court entered judgment in accordance with the verdict and Mansfield appeals. Jurisdiction is in this Court, Mo. Const, art. V, § 3.

The issue dispositive of this appeal concerns the refusal of the trial court to permit one Geneva Abbott (nee Poindexter) to testify in defense as an alibi witness.

The cause was submitted to the jury by an instruction on second-degree murder which…