State v. Lyles

Defendant was one of four persons jointly charged in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County with murder in the first degree in having shot and killed Martin Twillman in said county op. September 30, 1941. On his separate trial, he was convicted and sentenced to the extreme penalty, and he appeals.

A like judgment and sentence was appealed by one of his co-defendants, and it was reversed and the case remanded, at this term, for error in the giving of an instruction on the subject of extrajudicial statements made by defendant. [State v. Talbert, 351 Mo. 791, 174 S. W. (2d) 144.] Said instruction…