STATE OF MISSOURI, Plaintiff-Respondent v. NEIL N. HOWLAND

STATE OF MISSOURI, ) ) Plaintiff-Respondent, ) ) vs. ) No. SD35351 ) NEIL N. HOWLAND, ) Filed: June 20, 2019 ) Defendant-Appellant. ) APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF NEW MADRID COUNTY Honorable Fred W. Copeland, Circuit Judge AFFIRMED Neil N. Howland (“Defendant”) was charged by information with six offenses arising out of Defendant’s mother’s death on August 7, 2013, in Scott County. Count I charged murder in the first degree (Defendant, after deliberation, knowingly caused the death of his mother by choking her); Count II charged abandonment of a corpse (Defendant knowingly abandoned his…