State v. Kennade
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. — HoN. H. L. Edmuííds, Judge. The defendant, a G-erman, indicted for the murder of Cora Thompson, a negress, by shooting her with a pistol, was convicted of that crime in the second degree, his .punishment being assessed at twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he appeals to this-court.
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Appeal from St. Louis Criminal Court. — HoN. H. L. Edmuííds, Judge. The defendant, a G-erman, indicted for the murder of Cora Thompson, a negress, by shooting her with a pistol, was convicted of that crime in the second degree, his .punishment being assessed at twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he appeals to this-court. The -testimony on behalf of the prosecution was substantially this: On the afternoon of March 20, 1893, defendant was in a saloon on Eighth street, near Clark avenue, in the city of St. Louis. The saloon was called the “Tunnel house,” and was frequented…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
I. The instructions given at the instance of the state, covering, as they did all the points heretofore mentioned, left nothing to be desired, and were all that were necessary. Indeed it may safely be said that the instructions given were far too favorable for defendant. Whether they were or not, however, does, not matter, since defendant did not except to any of the instructions given, nor to the refusal of those refused, so that this case stands here just as if it were a civil case in which no exceptions had been saved; for the saving of exceptions occupies the same plane in criminal as in…
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