State v. Richardson

WESTHUES, C.

Appellant appealed from a conviction of murder in the first degree. His punishment was assessed at death. The information charged the crime to have been committed near Laredo, Grundy County, Missouri, on May 30, 1935. The information charged that James Richardson, Ellis Nave and Gilbert Glidewell had shot and killed one Elmer Davis. Appellant was granted a severance.

The evidence, omitting many of the details not material to the issues here, disclosed the following to have occurred. The deceased was a farmer living near the limits of the town of Laredo. On the evening of May 30,…