Legal Opinion

State v. Kennedy

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided February 20, 1900PublishedCited by 37 opinions

Appeal from Wrigbt Circuit Court. — Son. J ames T. Nevill6¡ Judge (1) The admission of evidence in relation to acts done by and conversations had between parties charged to have been implicated in the robbery with defendant, after the perpetration of the robbery and separation of the participants, was erroneous.

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Appeal from Wrigbt Circuit Court. — Son. J ames T. Nevill6¡ Judge (1) The admission of evidence in relation to acts done by and conversations had between parties charged to have been implicated in the robbery with defendant, after the perpetration of the robbery and separation of the participants, was erroneous. State v. Minton, 116 Mo. 615; State v. Hilderbrand, 105 Mo. 318; State v. Melrose, 98 Mo. 597; State v. McGraw, 87 Mo. 164; State v. Duncan, 64 Mo. 266; State v. Ross, 29 Mo. 32; 1 Greenl. Ev. (14 Ed.), secs. Ill, 233; State v. Harris, 51 S. W. Rep. 481. (2) Evidence in relation to…

1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.

At the March term, 1899, of the circuit court of Wright county the defendant was indicted for the statutory offense denounced by the Act of the General Assembly entitled, “An Act in relation to the crime of train robbing, and to provide a penalty therefor,” approved April 2, 1895. (Laws 1895, p, 160.) He was duly arraigned, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of seventeen years, and from that conviction appeals to this court.

On the night of January 3, 1899, at Macomb, a small flag station on the Kansas Oity, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad, in Wright county, the…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Coffin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
  2. Ogletree v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1856
  3. State v. DonnellySupreme Court of Missouri · 1895
  4. Baldwin v. StateSupreme Court of Missouri · 1848
  5. State v. NuesleinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1857

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3Cited by37 opinions

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