State v. Davis

SOMERVILLE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged with second degree murder (Sec. 559.020, RSMo 1969), found guilty of manslaughter (Sec. 559.070, RSMo 1969) by a jury, and sentenced to ten years confinement in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

The points of error relied on by defendant, four in number, are as follows: (1) the trial court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for verdict of acquittal at the close of the state’s case because under the evidence introduced by the state defendant, as a matter of law, acted in self-defense; (2) the trial court erred in admitting State’s…