State v. Bass
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Greene Criminal' Court. — Hon. Alfred Page, Judge. There is absolutely no substantial evidence upon which to base the judgment of conviction in this case.
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Appeal from Greene Criminal' Court. — Hon. Alfred Page, Judge. There is absolutely no substantial evidence upon which to base the judgment of conviction in this case. When the evidence of the State is considered calmly and with impartiality and without passion or prejudice, it simply discloses that appellant’s wife was found in the remains of a burning’ building where she, her husband and children, had lived, and that after several examinations shot were found in the heart and lungs cavity and a wound through her heart; that her body was> in such a condition the physicians on the part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The prosecuting attorney of Greene county at the March term, 1911, of the criminal court of said county, filed an information charging the defendant'with murder in the first degree in having ' shot his wife to death with a shotgun at their home .on the morning of January 24,1911. Upon a trial defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.
The defendant with his family, consisting of his wife and two small children, the elder under the age of five years, occupied a frame dwelling on the county road near the town of…
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