State v. Gibilterra

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment fixed by a jury at life imprisonment in the penitentiary, for killing William C. Hite with a knife in the city of St. Louis. He has filed no brief. His motion for new trial contained 27 assignments of error. Some of these are too general to comply with the new trial statute, Section 3735, Revised Statutes 1929 (Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 3275), and will not be discussed. We shall consider the others in groups, where possible.

A question is raised as to the sufficiency of the evidence. Aside from proof of corpus delicti, the…