State v. Bryant
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Platte Circuit Court. — Hon. James M. Sandusky, Judge. (1) The court erred in excluding the evidence offered by the defendant, because it tended, first, to show the beginning of the trouble, and explain in what sense defendant used the word “thief.”
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Appeal from Platte Circuit Court. — Hon. James M. Sandusky, Judge. (1) The court erred in excluding the evidence offered by the defendant, because it tended, first, to show the beginning of the trouble, and explain in what sense defendant used the word “thief.” There- is a vast difference in calling a man a thief, in so many words, and in telling him that he will prove him to be a thief, by his own admissions, and especially so when you are trying to prove the state of a man’s mind by the use of such words. And, second, we had the right to show that deceased and defendant once before had a…
1Opinion of the Court
Sherwood, J. —
Indicted for murder in the first degree for killing William Gfrundon, the defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his *27punishment assessed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years. The following is a sufficient statement of the salient facts in evidence :
For some six, eight or ten years prior to the homicide bad blood had existed between the deceased and the defendant, and this enmity still continued down to the time of the trial, though it appears that deceased had, some years after the difficulty or quarrel which then occurred,…
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