State v. Dettmer
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Andrew Cirmit Court.—Hon. William S. Herndon, Judge. Murder iu the first degree was the accusation against defendant, and on that he was found guilty of the second degree of that crime, and his punishment fixed at ten years in the penitentiary, and he appeals to this court.
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Appeal from Andrew Cirmit Court.—Hon. William S. Herndon, Judge. Murder iu the first degree was the accusation against defendant, and on that he was found guilty of the second degree of that crime, and his punishment fixed at ten years in the penitentiary, and he appeals to this court. The homicide of which defendant was convicted occurred at Dick Porter’s saloon in the city of St. Joseph on the night of February 27, 1892. From a mass of irrelevant testimony these facts in regard to the killing are obtained: Two weeks before the homicide the defendant, William Dettmer, and FrankBreeze, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Sherwood, J.—I.
There was»no error in denying defendant’s application for a continuance, and this is *432true for several reasons: Both of the absent witnesses are permanent residents of Buchanan county, and were there a few days before the trial. The day before the trial, a brother of the deceased saw and talked to both of the witnesses, one in Savannah, Andrew county, where the cause was pending, and the other in St. Joseph. The record shows that a similar application on account of the absence of one of these witnesses had been granted by the court on a former occasion. The affidavit for the…
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