State v. Shriver

DALTON, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. See Sections 559.020 and 559.030 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S.

The information charged that defendant, on June 9, 1953, at the County of Jackson and State of Missouri “feloniously, wilfully, premeditatedly, on purpose and of his malice aforethought, did kill and murder * * * ” Marie Cecelia Shriver, who was his wife, by striking and beating her with his fists and feet. By omitting the word “deliberately” the information properly charged murder in the second…