State v. Sebastian
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. — Eon. D. E. Eby, Judge. (1) (a) Defendant insists that under all the evidence, instruction 6, on second degree murder, should not have heen given. The evidence tends to prove murder in the first degree, or justifiable homicide, only. The case was tried on the theory, hy the State, that defendant “ brought on or provoked the combat.”
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Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court. — Eon. D. E. Eby, Judge. (1) (a) Defendant insists that under all the evidence, instruction 6, on second degree murder, should not have heen given. The evidence tends to prove murder in the first degree, or justifiable homicide, only. The case was tried on the theory, hy the State, that defendant “ brought on or provoked the combat.” This being the theory of the State, and supported as, it claims by'the testimony, this instruction should not have been given. State v. Kilgow, 70 Mo. 546. (b) Defendant complains of the action of the court in giving instruction…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, P. J.
This cause is now pending before this court upon appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the circuit court of Monroe county, Missouri, convicting him of murder in the second degree. On the 14th day of December, 1906, the grand jury of Monroe county returned an indictment against, the defendant charging him with murder in the first degree, which indictment, omitting formal parts, was in the following form:
‘ ‘ The grand jurors for the State of Missouri, summoned from the body of Monroe county, being duly impaneled, charged and sworn to inquire within and for the body of said Monroe county,…
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