State v. Brown

SHANGLER, Judge.

The defendant appeals from a conviction of manslaughter and a sentence of imprisonment for a term of ten years.

The defendant and one Henry Piggie, Jr. had joined a number of others in a game of dice. As the afternoon progressed, they drank and quarreled, and after Piggie passed out from an excess of consumption, the defendant struck him on the head with a metal stool and caused his death.

At the beginning of the trial, the prosecutor announced that his first witness was to be Gerald Fortney, a member of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department who was soon to leave for…