State v. Brinkley

The appellant was convicted by a jury in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis of murder in the second degree, as an habitual criminal, and his punishment assessed at the maximum of life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. He is the same person as the appellant in State v. Brinkley, 354 Mo. 337, 189 S. W. (2d) 314, decided last fall; and is represented by the same chief 'counsel, who was appointed by the circuit court in both cases. The homicide admittedly was committed by appellant at an apartment at 3837 Washington Avenue in St. Louis on the late afternoon of September 12, 1943, in…