State v. Matthews
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. — TIoh. James D. Pox, Judge. Cl) The judgment should be reversed because the jurors were not properly summoned. (2) The court should have compelled the state to elect on which count it would stand. (3) The judgment should be reversed because of the improper manner in which the witness, Ciillam, was cross-examined by the prosecuting attorney.' (1) The court will only review the matters of exception preserved in the motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from Washington Circuit Court. — TIoh. James D. Pox, Judge. Cl) The judgment should be reversed because the jurors were not properly summoned. (2) The court should have compelled the state to elect on which count it would stand. (3) The judgment should be reversed because of the improper manner in which the witness, Ciillam, was cross-examined by the prosecuting attorney.' (1) The court will only review the matters of exception preserved in the motion for a new trial. State *. Dunn, 73 Mo. 586; State •». McCray, 74 Mo. 303; State v, Preston, 77 Mo. 294. (2) It was not improper for the…
1Opinion of the CourtRat, J.
The defendant, who is a colored man, was indicted for a felonious assault on one Plenry Johnson, a white man, and upon arraignment and plea of not-guilty was tried, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of three years. The difficulty between them arose over a game of cards for a bottle of bitters at the store of one Grillam, in Washington county, Missouri. Johnson received a number of cuts from a knife, a severe and dangerous oüe in the ab*123domen, from the effects of which after some months he recovered. There were present at the time, the defendant and…
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