State v. Malone

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary for having shot and killed one Arthur Marshall at Sikeston, Scott County, Missouri, on the night of September 25, 1929. This is the second appeal. On the first trial, held in the Circuit Court of Scott County, appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. On his appeal from that judgment we reversed and remanded the cause for errors in the trial. [State v. Malone, 327 Mo. 1217, 39 S.W.2d 786.] Thereafter the cause was sent on…