State v. Grant
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Trial before TIon. Noaii M. Givan, Judge of tbe Seventh Judicial Circuit. This Was an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree for the killing of one Patrick Jones, a policeman of Kansas City. [The record showed substantially the following facts, viz: That at just about dark, on the evening of April 3rd, 1882, Jones was returning home from day duty as policeman, and was about to enter his gate, fronting on St. Louis avenue,…
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — Trial before TIon. Noaii M. Givan, Judge of tbe Seventh Judicial Circuit. This Was an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree for the killing of one Patrick Jones, a policeman of Kansas City. [The record showed substantially the following facts, viz: That at just about dark, on the evening of April 3rd, 1882, Jones was returning home from day duty as policeman, and was about to enter his gate, fronting on St. Louis avenue, in said city,'when one George Miller hailed him in a friendly way, and deceased thereupon stood with Miller, on the…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
This cause has come again to this court on appeal. 'When it was here ón a former occasion the judgment was reversed because of the error committed in failing to instruct the jury in reference to the knowledge of the defendant of the official character of the deceased. State v. Grant, 76 Mo. 236. Since then there have been two juries empanelled in the cause, the first failing to agree, and the second returning a verdict of murder in the first degree, as was done by the jury on the first trial; hence this appeal in which we are not only called upon to review fresh errors, which it is alleged…
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