State v. Hulbert

Appellant was indicted in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis for murder in the first degree. Upon a trial he was convicted and his punishment assessed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this judgment he appeals.

On the 25th day of July, 1919, Otto Bauer was shot and killed in said city when he was in the act of checking up the accounts and counting the money in a grocery store of which he was the auditor or supervisor. It was about 7:30 o ’clock p. m. when a man, subsequently identified as the appellant, rushed into the store, and stepping behind a half grown girl who…