State v. Kennedy
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Greene Criminal Court. — Row. John T. Moore, Special Judge. (1) The theory of the defense in this case was that the killing of the deceased was of no graver grade of crime than manslaughter in the fourth degree.
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Appeal from Greene Criminal Court. — Row. John T. Moore, Special Judge. (1) The theory of the defense in this case was that the killing of the deceased was of no graver grade of crime than manslaughter in the fourth degree. The testimony tended to show that the woman, Eva Parks, was the common law. wife of the defendant Dave-Kennedy; that there had been an agreement between them to live together as man and wife, followed by cohabitation and a holding out to the community that they were man and wife, and that both parties, being unmarried and of age, were capable of thus contracting a…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, J.
— At the July term, 1906, of the criminal court of Greene county, the prosecuting attorney of said county filed an information in open court charging the defendant, David Kennedy, with murder in the first degree of Walter Williams at said county, August 2,1905. The- defendant being without means to employ counsel to conduct his defense, such counsel was assigned him by the court. Several dilatory pleas were filed by the defendant and overruled by the court, of which ruling but one, namely, the action of the court in overruling his motion to quash the panel of the petit jury, was preserved in…
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