State v. Meller

MORGAN, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was tried to a jury for the crime of dynamiting a building with the felonious intent to defraud an insurance company. Section 560.400, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S. After a finding of guilty, the court, under the provisions of the Habitual Criminal Act, Section 556.280, assessed punishment at eighteen years confinement.

Being found indigent, counsel was appointed for defendant to perfect his appeal. However, no brief was filed and this court, after considering “the matters properly raised in defendant’s motion for new trial and portions of the transcript of the record…