State v. Mathis

From a conviction and a sentence in tbe Circuit Court of St. Louis County on a charge of felonious assault with intent to kill and malice aforethought, the defendant has appealed.

The victim of the alleged assault was the defendant’s wife. He shot her, inflicting a very serious wound. Mathis conducted a sort of hotel and saloon at Prospect Hill in St. Louis County. The case for the State is entirely made out on the testimony of Dora Tucker and Benjamin F. Spicer, to whom Dora was married before the trial.

On January 14, 1928, about four o’clock in the afternoon, the defendant came into the…