State v. Vaughan
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. Wm. H. Martin,. Judge, (1) The court erred in permitting the State to introduce evidence of the killing of Allison.
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Appeal from Cole Circuit Court. — Hon. Wm. H. Martin,. Judge, (1) The court erred in permitting the State to introduce evidence of the killing of Allison. The record shows that the killing of Clay occurred from five to ten minutes before the shooting of Allison, and was a separate and distinct offense, and that the homicide of Allison was really not necessary to throw light on or to explain the killing of Clay; hence, the evidence as to the Allison killing was incompetent and inadmissible. 1 Bish. New Crim. Proe. (4 Ed.), sec. 1120. (2) The court erred in denying to defendants the benefit of…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, P. J.
Appeal from the judgment of the circuit court of Cole county, rendered January 2, 1906, upon a verdict convicting the defendants of the crime of murder in the first degree, the punishment for which is death.
The conviction was for having killed and murdered one John A. Clay, who was at the time a guard at the Missouri penitentiary and in the discharge of his duties as such.
The defendants and one Hiram Blake were, at the time of the commission qf the alleged crime', legally imprisoned in said penitentiary. Around the building’s and ground's of said penitentiary there is and was a high stone…
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