State v. Goodwin
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. — Hon. W. A. C. Walker, Judge. (1) The court erred in giving the instruction for the State on the subject of self-defense. (2) The court erred in permitting counsel for the State to continue asking leading questions, in an endeavor to get before the jury incompetent matter.
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Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. — Hon. W. A. C. Walker, Judge. (1) The court erred in giving the instruction for the State on the subject of self-defense. (2) The court erred in permitting counsel for the State to continue asking leading questions, in an endeavor to get before the jury incompetent matter. State v. Beckner, 194 Mo. 281; 2 Wigmore on Evidence, sees. 891, 992!, 924; State v. Sibley, 131 Mo. 519; State v. Pollard, 174 Mo. 607. The court erred in not rebuking counsel for the State for asking incompetent questions and then withdrawing them. See authorities last above; State v.…
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, C.
The appellant was found guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree in the circuit court of Dunklin County,- at the October Term, 1915. He was charged with killing one Robert M. Baskin. The affair took place at a logging , camp of the Wisconsin Lumber Company, located on a spur track near a station known as Converse, on the Deering-Southwestern Railroad. The defendant was woods foreman of the lumber company, having general charge of the camp and of the men employed there.. Baskin, the deceased, was one of the men employed and his duty was to scale logs. Baskin was a young man whose…
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