State v. Williamson

This is the second appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree for the killing of one George Williams. The first conviction, in which his punishment was assessed at death, was reversed by this court because the.trial court improperly admitted in evidence a signed confession of the appellant which was not a voluntary confession. That opinion is reported in 339 Mo. 1038, 99 S. W. (2d) 76.

The deceased lived alone in a eabiii in the rural section of Ste. Genevieve County. His body was found in the woods about a half-mile from the cabin late in the afternoon of Sunday, August 11, 1935.…