State v. Jackson

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from conviction, upon jury trial, for first degree murder and two counts of assault with intent to kill without malice aforethought. Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment on murder charge and to five years’ imprisonment on each of assault charges.

On this appeal, issues involve the validity of the murder charge in the information, a claimed improper confrontation between appellant and a state’s witness, and the propriety of the trial court’s “instructing down” on the murder charge.

A lengthy dice game at a house located at 1400 Glasgow in the City of St.…