State v. Simms

This case has heretofore been before this court, and is reported- in 68 Mo. 305, upon an examination of which it will be seen that the judgment was reversed, solely because of the error committed by the trial court in giving an instruction to the effect that insanity, when set up as a defense, could only be proven by direct evidence. Upon a re-trial of tbe cause this error was corrected, and defendant was again convicted of murder in the second *539degree, and has again appealed, assigning numerous errors, whieh we will notice in the order presented by his counsel in their brief.

i. criminal…