State v. Courtney

In the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Frank Adams, 'and his punishment was assessed at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for his natural life. He has duly appealed from that sentence to this court.

Appellant has filed no brief in this court; we will, therefore, decide the points raised in his motion for a new trial. His first five assignments of error deal with the trial court’s refusal to grant him a continuance after an information had been substituted for an indictment. At the beginning of the…