State v. Long

Appellant was charged, by an information filed in the Circuit Court of Knox County, Missouri, with the crime of murder in the first degree. The first trial of the case resulted in a hung jury. The second trial resulted in the conviction of appellant of murder in the second degree with a punishment of thirty years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. He duly appealed from the sentence imposed.

Appellant and his wife lived on a farm located on the north side of an east and west road a few miles south of Hurdland, Knox County, Missouri. The deceased, Fay Oliver, lived with his wife and children…