State v. Truster

BOHLING, Commissioner.

Chrissie Truster was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for the murder in the second degree of Newlin Truster, her husband, Sections 559.020, 559.030 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. She contends in her brief that the court erred in failing to sustain her motions for judgment of acquittal at the close of the State’s case and at the close of all the evidence; in admitting certain testimony and certain exhibits in evidence, and in the giving of an instruction.

Appellant’s position is that the court erred in overruling her motions for judgment of acquittal because, independent of…