STATE v. McQUINN

No. 41984.

235 S.W.2d 396 (1951)

STATE v. McQUINN.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

January 8, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Beavers, Joe Beavers, Grant City, for appellant.

J. E. Taylor, Atty. Gen., E. L. Redman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


LEEDY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of murder in the second degree; punishment, a term of 15 years in the penitentiary. The appeal presents the single question of whether the court erred in admitting the written confessions of defendant.

Mary Hammer, the deceased, a spinster, was 82 years of age at the time of her death. She was a recluse, living alone in her dilapidated farm home in an isolated neighborhood of Gentry County, amid...

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