State v. Ball

TURNAGE, Presiding Judge.

David Ball was found guilty by a jury of culpable negligent manslaughter under § 565.005 RSMo 1978. In accordance with the jury’s verdict, the court sentenced Ball to one year in the county jail and a fine of $1,000. On this appeal, Ball contends that the court erred in failing to sustain the defendant’s motion to dismiss due to insufficiency of the evidence, in failing to dismiss the information for its insufficient recital of specific factual allegations, in instructing the jury on circumstantial evidence in instruction number 5, in failing to instruct the jury on…