State v. Grant
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. John A. Hookaday, Judge. (1) The prosecuting witness, Cook, was permitted to testify that his wound had been attended with very serious consequences; that an operation had been performed, but without success; and that his leg was paralyzed and practically useless. The defendant was not charged with maiming or wounding the prosecuting witness, but with shooting at him with the intent to kill.
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Appeal from Boone Circuit Court. — Hon. John A. Hookaday, Judge. (1) The prosecuting witness, Cook, was permitted to testify that his wound had been attended with very serious consequences; that an operation had been performed, but without success; and that his leg was paralyzed and practically useless. The defendant was not charged with maiming or wounding the prosecuting witness, but with shooting at him with the intent to kill. Under this charge the defendant’s guilt or innocence did not in the slightest degree depend on the effects or consequences of his shot, but purely and solely on the…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
The defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Boone county of the crime of assault with intent to kill one David W. Cook, by shooting at him with a pistol, and his punishment fixed at three years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary. He has appealed.
At the time of the difficulty the defendant 'and Cook were neighbors living near each other, but upon opposite sides of a road, six or seven miles from Columbia in said county. Their residences were about two hundred yards apart. In the afternoon of July 18, 1896, Cook and a man by the name of Andrews were in a lot on Cook’s farm near the…
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- State v. WelsorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- State v. MusickSupreme Court of Missouri · 1890
- State v. AverySupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1889
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- State v. BlitzMissouri Court of Appeals · 1903
- State v. MartinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1953
- State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1947
- State v. PfeiferSupreme Court of Missouri · 1916
- State v. McCarverSupreme Court of Missouri · 1906
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