State v. Joy

The defendant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Callaway County with murder in the first degree. He was tried in the Circuit Court of Boone County, convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to thirty-five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. Prom this judgment he appeals.

On March 6, 1924, Mrs. Susan Joy, wife of the defendant, was found at about 10:15 o’clock at night sitting on the floor beside her bed in ah upstairs room of the residence of herself and her husband, the defendant, bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. She died almost immediately after…