State v. Robinson

The appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis and his punishment assessed by the jury at imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of fifteen years, for shooting with a pistol and killing one Alonzo Harris on March 6, 1943. The cause was tried in November, 1943, but not submitted on appeal in this court until the current January call, 1945. The first assignment of error in appellant’s brief complains that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury on the crime of manslaughter as a part of the law of the case, under…