State v. Anderson

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

Defendant was convicted by the verdict of a jury of murder in the second degree, and his punishment was set by the jury at imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for 15 years. Credit was given on the sentence for eight months spent by defendant in the county jail.

On the appeal here, defendant has filed no brief. We therefore review all of his .assignments of error properly raised in his motion for new trial. Supreme Court Rule 28.02, V.A.M.R.

The facts of this case will be stated in their light most favorable to the state by reason of defendant’s assignment of error…