State v. Shaw

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was charged in an indictment with second degree murder and was convicted by a jury of manslaughter. He was sentenced under the Second Offender Act to a term of ten years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

On appeal, defendant raises one point of error for our consideration. He contends that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for judgment of acquittal because the state’s evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict.

The deceased, Earl Ashford, was killed March 18, 1978. The results of an autopsy performed by the medical examiner revealed…