State v. Howard
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Laclede Circuit Court. — Hon. C, C. Bland, Judge. The errors complained of by defendant are: First. Admitting illegal and irrelevant testimony on the part of the state, especially the incompetent testimony of Ed. Hoard. Second. Defendant did not have forty-eight hours to challenge the jury as shown by the record, only having forty-two hours, when he was forced into trial. Third.
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Appeal from Laclede Circuit Court. — Hon. C, C. Bland, Judge. The errors complained of by defendant are: First. Admitting illegal and irrelevant testimony on the part of the state, especially the incompetent testimony of Ed. Hoard. Second. Defendant did not have forty-eight hours to challenge the jury as shown by the record, only having forty-two hours, when he was forced into trial. Third. Giving the instructions to the jury for the state, and in particular the following instruction: “If you find the defendant guilty, you will simply so say in your verdict. With the punishr ment you have…
1Opinion of the CourtShebwood, J.
— Convicted of murder in the first degree by shooting Thomas McMichael, a deaf and dumb mute, to death with a revolving pistol, the defendant has appealed to this court. Associated with him in the indictment as accessories were William Jennings, James Coldiron, A. L. Martin, Jr., and William Martin.
The murder is charged to have occurred on the twenty-seventh of April, 1889, in Maries county, Missouri, and a change of venue, at defendant’s instance, was awarded to Laclede county. Various errors have been assigned in the briefs of counsel as grounds for a reversal of the judgment; these will be…
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