State v. Jackson

By information filed in the Circuit Court of Taney County, appellant was charged with murder in the first degree. A change of venue having been awarded,-he was tried in the Circuit Court of Stone County and there convicted. The death penalty was imposed by the court upon the failure of the jury to agree as to- his punishment. After an unavailing motion for a new trial, he appeals but has filed no brief.

The charge involved in this ease grows out of the murder of a motorist, alleged to have been committed at the hands of his “hitch hiking” passenger, who had been picked np along the highway and…