State v. Hamilton

Appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Nodaway County, Missouri, of being an accessory after the fact in a murder. The information also alleged a former conviction of a felony and a discharge from the punishment imposed. A jury found appellant guilty of the charge and also found that he had been previously convicted, and assessed the maximum punishment of five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this sentence an appeal was duly perfected.

Appellant lived with his three small children in Nodaway County, south of Maryville, near U.S. Highway 71. In the early part of May, 1934,…