State v. Frazier
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Platte Girctiit Court. — Hon. W. S. Herndon, Judge. On conviction of murder in the second degree, ten years in the penitentiary was awarded defendant.
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Appeal from Platte Girctiit Court. — Hon. W. S. Herndon, Judge. On conviction of murder in the second degree, ten years in the penitentiary was awarded defendant. The indictment charged defendant with murder in the first degree, in that he had shot his father-in-law, Jacob Oxford, to death with a pistol on the sixth day of October, 1895. The testimony upon the part of the state tends to show that on the morning of the sixth of October, 1895, and for some time prior thereto, the defendant had been married to deceased’s daughter, May, and that the deceased and his family lived in the same…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The vain repetitions in which the heathen indulge when making their prayers, finds a full equal, if not a superior, in the instructions given in this case, twenty-three in number and covering nearly eight printed pages.
There is in the old arithmetics a chapter entitled <<Permutations” in which is taught how often the changes can be rung on the location of a given number of objects. This chapter would appear to have been consulted before the foregoing instructions on self-defense were drawn. But “what can’t be cured must be endured,” and so we have to travel over the superficial area of these…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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