State v. Bainter

STEWART, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of two counts of murder in the second degree, and assault with intent to do great bodily harm. He was also found to be a second offender under § 556.280 RSMo 1969 and was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment on each of the two counts of murder to run consecutively and to five years for the crime of assault with intent to do great bodily harm to be consecutive to the latter sentence for murder.

Defendant contends that the court erred in (1) permitting the State to introduce evidence that he mistreated the child of a Mrs.…