State v. Woodard

PRITCHARD, Chief Judge.

Defendant, Alvin C. Woodard, was originally convicted of second degree murder in the circuit court of Jackson County, Missouri. On Appeal to this court, the case was reversed and remanded for a new trial, State v. Woodard, 499 S.W.2d 553 (Mo.App.1973), because of prejudicial error in allowing the state to impeach its own witness by means of an extra-judicial statement of one of the state’s witnesses as constituting substantive evidence in support of the elements of the offense charged. On retrial, defendant was found guilty by a jury of the crime of manslaughter…