State v. Brown

JAMES W. BROADDUS, Special Commissioner.

In this case an information filed by the Prosecuting Attorney of Saline County charged that defendant, Clarence Amos Brown, “on the 3rd day of December, 1966, at the said County of Saline, in the State of Missouri did, assault and beat William T. Hartley, Junior, by striking and beating him about the head, face and body with his (defendant’s) hands and fists.”

The evidence disclosed that Hartley was 40 years of age, five feet six and one-quarter inches in height and weighed 158 pounds. He had been in the United States Navy and while in the service had…