State v. Clough

The grand jury of Laclede County, Missouri, by an indictment, charged the defendant in this case with murder in the first degree, having shot and killed one John Brady on the 24th day of January, 1929. Defendant was tried on this charge in Laclede County, October 14, 1929. The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree, and assessed his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary. Motion for new trial was filed, overruled, and defendant sentenced. From this sentence he has appealed.

The defendant, a justice of the peace, lived about one-half mile north of Conway, Laclede…