State v. Williamson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. Matt. G. Reynolds, Judge. The court should have sustained defendant’s motion for a new trial, one ground of which was that the verdict was against the evidence. Exception was preserved to the action of the court in overruling said motion. Shooting with intent to kill Woehrle will not sustain a charge of shooting with intent to kill Dorn, simply because the shot took effect upon Dorn.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — How. Matt. G. Reynolds, Judge. The court should have sustained defendant’s motion for a new trial, one ground of which was that the verdict was against the evidence. Exception was preserved to the action of the court in overruling said motion. Shooting with intent to kill Woehrle will not sustain a charge of shooting with intent to kill Dorn, simply because the shot took effect upon Dorn. State v. Mulhall, 199 Mo. 202. It is earnestly insisted by counsel for apellant that this case should be reversed and remanded on the authority of the case of…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, J.
Upon an information filed by the assistant circuit attorney of the city of St. Louis, in the circuit court of said city, charging the defendant with an assault with intent to kill one Elmer Dorn, the defendant was convicted and his punishment assessed by the jury at imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years. The defendant in due time filed motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment, which were overruled. ' His sentence was afterwards commuted to three' years imprisonment in the penitentiary, and judgment passed accordingly. Defendant appealed.
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