State v. Steele

WELBORN, Commissioner.

A St. Louis County Circuit Court jury found Glynn Clinton Steele guilty of the offense of abortion and fixed his punishment at one year’s imprisonment in the county jail. The offense being a graded felony (§ 559.100, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S.), the appeal came to this court.

At the outset, we are confronted with the question of what contentions of the appellant are properly before this court on the appeal. The requirements of Criminal Rule 27.20(a), V.A.M.R., that a motion for new trial “set forth in detail and with particularity, * * * the specific grounds or causes therefor”…