State v. Jones
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Randolph Circuit Court. — Hon. G. H. Btjrckhartt, Judge. On belialf of tbe State, it was testified that defendant, having both hands in his sack-coat pockets, stepped out of a drug store and walked rapidly toward the deceased, who was walking very slowly, holding a tobacco stick in his left hand and his right in his pantaloons pocket.
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Appeal from Randolph Circuit Court. — Hon. G. H. Btjrckhartt, Judge. On belialf of tbe State, it was testified that defendant, having both hands in his sack-coat pockets, stepped out of a drug store and walked rapidly toward the deceased, who was walking very slowly, holding a tobacco stick in his left hand and his right in his pantaloons pocket. When they reached each other and had stopped, deceased was leaning on the tobacco stick and had his right hand in his pantaloons pocket. Defendant said something to deceased, and thereupon shot through his coat pocket. Deceased then jerked his hand…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The defendant, indicted for murder in the first degree, for killing Sam’l H. Blair, was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary. The usual instructions, as *285applicable to the facts of the case, were given on the part of the State, and we have been able to discover nothing objectionable in them, and whatever lack there was in the instructions given for the State was fully supplied by such as were given on behalf of the defendant.
i. mttkdek ; instructions: self-defense. The fourth instruction for the State is certainly not…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- State v. UnderwoodSupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
- State v. HolmeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
- Scott v. EmersonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1852
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