State v. Dowling

Appellant was convicted of assault with intent to kill one Lewis Lee Baker with a pistol, in violation of See. 4408, R. S. 1939, Sec. 4014, Mo. Stat. Ann., p. 2817. The maximum punishment fixed by the statute is life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The duration of the punishment assessed by the jury was thirty years. On this appeal appellant’s brief makes twenty-one assignments of error in the trial below complaining: that there was no substantial evidence to support the verdict; of the prosecuting attorney’s opening statement and closing argument; of the admission of incompetent and…