State v. Jackson

Tbe appellant was convicted of rape in tbe Circuit Court of the City, of St. Louis and bis punishment assessed by tbe jury at death, Tbe court commuted tbe punishment to life imprisonment in tbe penitentiary. From that judgment and sentence be appealed. He has filed no brief in this court. There are fourteen assignments of error in'the motion for new trial. One of these complains that tbe verdict was against tbe evidence and tbe weight thereof; another of the latitude allowed the circuit attorney in the cross-examination of tbe .defendant; four assign error in the argument of the circuit…