State v. Sinclair
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. — Hon. W. S. G. Walker, Judge. (1) If it be granted tbat the home of defendant’s mother, after the separation, followed the home of deceased, still, the deceased, having established his home at a place other than the place where the mother lived, and where he was killed, could not claim the mother’s home as his home, because he had established his home elsewhere.
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Appeal from Dunklin Circuit Court. — Hon. W. S. G. Walker, Judge. (1) If it be granted tbat the home of defendant’s mother, after the separation, followed the home of deceased, still, the deceased, having established his home at a place other than the place where the mother lived, and where he was killed, could not claim the mother’s home as his home, because he had established his home elsewhere. The law never required the husband to follow the wife to a new home, but at one time required the wife .to follow the husband to the husband’s new home. In this case, in no view of the law was the…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, P. J.
Charged with murdering his stepfather, Sam Jones, defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the fourth degree, and appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of Dunklin county fixing his punishment at two years in the penitentiary.
All parties connected with this tragedy were farmers residing in the southern part of Dunklin county, Missouri. In the year 1911, Sam Jones, the deceased, a man of fifty-seven years of age, was married to Mrs. M. L. Sinclair, a widow, who resided upon her own farm. She is the mother of defendant.
After the marriage deceased (Jones) lived upon his wife’s farm; the…
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