State v. Hines

TURNAGE, Judge.

Roger Hines was convicted by a jury of common assault, § 559.2201 RSMo 1969, and sentenced to pay a fine of $50. On this appeal he contends the court erred in (1) admitting photographs in evidence; (2) giving an instruction which assumed the commission of an assault; (3) failing to give an instruction on excusable use of force; and (4) failing to define the term assault in the instructions. Affirmed.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged and the jury could reasonably have found that Roger Hines and Rose Ann Fowler enjoyed both an employer-employee and personal…