State v. Thresher

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Perry Lester Thresher, Jr., was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Defendant appealed but filed no brief, so we examine the nine assignments of error in his motion for a new trial. Supreme Court Rule 28.02, V.A.M.R.

The information charged that on April 23, 1960 in Clay County defendant wilfully, premeditatedly, deliberately and of his malice aforethought assaulted, struck, hit and beat Constance Rebecca Williams with a stick of wood while attempting to perpetrate rape upon her, thereby inflicting a mortal wound from which she died.

Assignme…