State v. Brown

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

Defendant was charged by indictment with murder in the first degree. Upon trial, a jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and assessed defendant’s punishment at twenty years in the state penitentiary. Sections 559.010 and 559.030 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. Defendant has appealed from the ensuing judgment, but has filed no brief herein. We shall look to his motion for a new trial for assignments of contended errors.

There is no contended error assigned in defendant’s motion pertaining to the sub-stantiality of the evidence in supporting the verdict and…