State v. Traylor

By information filed in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, appellant was charged with murder in the first degree, in having shot and killed one Timothy Lahart. Upon a trial he was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years. He was sentenced accordingly, and in due course appealed.

The evidence on the. part of the State tended to show the following: That the alleged homicide occurred at 2938 Chouteau Avenue in St. Louis about six or six-thirty p. M., on January 8, 1931. De ceased Timothy…