State v. Grant

HOLLINGSWORTH, Judge.

On January 21, 1962, Homer Oral Taylor, a tavern operator, was fatally shot with a shotgun held in the hands of defendant, Thelma Fern Grant,, in an apartment ad'jacent to or adjoining the tavern operated by Taylor, in Jackson County, Missouri, in which Taylor and defendant, not married to each other, then and had lived together more than two years. Defendant was charged by an information filed in the Circuit Court of Jackson County with murder in the first degree. When the case came on for trial, at which defendant and her counsel (who also represents her on this appeal)…