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State v. Clinton

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided June 3, 1919PublishedCited by 11 opinions

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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Mon. Victor M. Falkenhainer, Judge. (1) The State’s instruction No. 2 is an instruction on murder in the first degree. The defendant was found guilty of murder in the second degree, hence error in the instruction is not material, and same will not he reviewed here. State v. Wilson, 250 Mo. 329; State v. Grote, 109 Mo. 345; State v. Stockwell, 106 Mo. 36. (2) The court did not err in giving the instruction on murder in the second degree. Kelly’s Criminal Law and Procedure, sec. 4899; State v. Whitsett, 232 Mo. 522; State v. West, 202 Mo. 138; State…

1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.

Defendant was charged by informamurder in “the first degree. Upon a trial, he was contion, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, with *346victed of imirder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at twenty years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. From this judgment he appeals.

The defendant, as the business agent of a local industrial union, in the City of St. Louis, collected back dues from a member of the union named Hammerle, but failed to account for same, thus depriving the latter of his right to a transfer, which he had demanded upon the payment of the dues. Hammerle…

2Cases cited10 opinions

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