State v. Taylor

COIL, Commissioner.

A jury convicted defendant Louis Taylor of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at commitment to the Department of Corrections for a term of fifteen years. He has appealed from the ensuing judgment, and contends first that the trial court erred in submitting the issue of murder in the second degree.

Defendant was convicted of second-degree murder at a prior trial on this same charge and that judgment was reversed *882and the case remanded for the trial court’s failure to have given an instruction on manslaughter. State v. Taylor, Mo., 309 S.W.2d 621. The evidence…