State v. Smith

240 S.W.2d 671 (1951)

STATE

v.

SMITH.

No. 42285.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

June 11, 1951.

Geo. F. Addison, Salem, for appellant.

J. E. Taylor, Atty. Gen., Hugh P. Williamson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of ten years for shooting Thomas Martin to death with a shotgun. He has appealed to this court, assigning as error the failure of the trial court to instruct the jury on the law of manslaughter, the admission of certain photographs into…