STATE v. LOSTON

No. 41934.

234 S.W.2d 535 (1950)

STATE v. LOSTON.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris A. Shenker, St. Louis, for appellant.

J. E. Taylor, Atty. Gen., R. Wilson Barrow, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


LOZIER, Commissioner.

Appellant (hereinafter called defendant) was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. On this appeal she assigns: insufficiency of the evidence; improper admission of evidence; failure to instruct as to suicide, self-defense and circumstantial evidence; and erroneous instructions as to accident and use of an "alias."

Defendant offered no evidence. The state's case was: Ben Washington, the deceased, died in St...

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