State v. Marston

BARDGETT, Judge.

Appellant, Jeanetta Yvonne Marston, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was found guilty of Murder in the First Degree, a felony, by a jury which assessed her punishment at life imprisonment, the State having waived the death penalty, and from the judgment entered on said verdict the defendant appeals. ,We have jurisdiction. Art. V, Sec. 3, Const, of Mo.1945, V.A.M.S., as amended 1970.

The sole point raised on this appeal is that the Court erred in giving Instruction No. 3, the verdict-directing instruction on the crime of murder in the first degree, for the reason that said…