State v. Beeler

JOHN C. HOLSTEIN, Judge.

Defendant Scott Robert Beeler appeals his conviction by a Schuyler County jury of involuntary manslaughter, sec. 565.024.1(1), 1 for which he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment. This Court ordered the case transferred from the court of appeals after opinion. Mo. Const art. V, sec. 10. The judgment of the trial court is reversed.

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Defendant was the city marshal of Lancaster, Missouri. In the early morning of December 31, 1996, he stopped Ashley McElroy for driving with a headlight out and radioed the Schuyler County sheriffs department for information. The radio…