State v. Bartley

Appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree and received a sentence of thirty years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, from which sentence he has appealed. On January 24, 1933, the prosecuting attorney of Atchison County, Missouri, filed an information in the circuit court of said county charging appellant with murder in the first degree in that on the sixteenth day of January, 1933, he shot and killed his son, Wilburn Bartley.

Appellant was first tried upon this charge in Atchison County and found guilty of murder in the second degree. His punishment was fixed at twenty-five…