State v. Spradlin

WESTHUES, C.

Appellant, Edgar Spradlin, was found guilty in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County, Missouri, of an assault with intent to kill with malice aforethought and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years. He filed a motion for new trial which was overruled. An appeal was taken from the judgment.

Appellant filed no brief so we take the assignments of error in the motion for new trial to determine whether the judgment should be affirmed or reversed and the case remanded for new trial.

One assignment in the motion states that the evidence was insufficient to…