State v. Spray
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Ho». Walter B. Douglas, Judge. (1) The entire testimony of Arthur Damschroeder should have been excluded as incompetent, immaterial and irrelevant, and for the reason that evidence of another offense by the defendant in this canse was entirely improper.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Ho». Walter B. Douglas, Judge. (1) The entire testimony of Arthur Damschroeder should have been excluded as incompetent, immaterial and irrelevant, and for the reason that evidence of another offense by the defendant in this canse was entirely improper. State v. Goetz, 34 Mo. 85; State v. Beavis, 71 Mo. 419; State v. Beed, 85 Mo. 194; State v. Burlingame, 146 Mo. 207; State v. Harold, 38 Mo. 496; State v. Pierline, 18 Mo. 381; State v. Daubert, 42 Mo. 242; State v. Greenwade, 72 Mo. 298; People v. Molineux, 61 N. E. 286; People v. Ware, 1 N. Y. Or.…
1Opinion of the CourtFox, J.
The indictment in this case was returned into court May 9, 1902, and by it the defendant is. charged with being an habitual criminal, and with robbery. On trial he was found guilty of robbery and his punishment fixed at fifteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. After an unsuccessful motion for a new trial he has appealed to this court.
On the night of March 26th, at about ten o ’clock in the evening, George A. Mellies, a practicing physician in St. Louis, Missouri, was held up and robbed of forty-nine dollars in money, a gold-filled watch, and a bunch of keys; the watch was worth about…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Bottomley v. United StatesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1840
- State v. MyersSupreme Court of Missouri · 1884
- State v. ScottSupreme Court of Missouri · 1891
- State v. DaubertSupreme Court of Missouri · 1868
- State v. GreenwadeSupreme Court of Missouri · 1880
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- State v. BurnsSupreme Court of Missouri · 1998
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