State v. Bryant
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Clarice Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. Tlie instructions given by the court, and referred to in the opinion, were as follows: “1. The jury are instructed that the defendant is charged with murder in the first degree, and that, under the evidence in the case, it is their duty to find him guilty of murder in the first degree or to acquit him.”
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Appeal from Clarice Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge. Tlie instructions given by the court, and referred to in the opinion, were as follows: “1. The jury are instructed that the defendant is charged with murder in the first degree, and that, under the evidence in the case, it is their duty to find him guilty of murder in the first degree or to acquit him.” “6. As a defence to this prosecution, the defendant, by his counsel, has interposed the plea of insanity ; that is, that the act which he is alleged to have committed is one for which he cannot be held criminally responsible,…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
Tried on a charge of murder in the first degree, the defendant interposed the plea of insanity, resulting in a bung jury on the first trial, and on the second trial, in a verdict of guilty in manner and form as charged; judgment and sentence accordingly. Appealing from this judgment, the defendant assigns as error the following: (1) The refusal to grant the defendant a continuance. (2) The accepting of certain persons as jurors, and the retaining of them on the panel of forty, from which the trial jury were selected. (3) The exclusion of certain evidence. (4) The admission of certain…
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