State v. Burney

The appellant, Mrs. Bessie Burney, was convicted in the circuit court of Greene County of wilfully and maliciously shooting a pistol into the dwelling house of her neighbor, Mrs. Anna Stacey, a felony under Sec. 4031, R. S. 1929, Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 2838. The punishment assessed by the jury was imprisonment in the. county jail for six months and a fine of $200. On this appeal she assigns three errors: (1) that the trial court overruled her motion to suppress evidence (namely, her pistol) obtained by the State through an unlawful search of her premises without a search warrant and before she…