LEEDY, Judge.
Norman Oscar Riley was tried in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County under an information charging him with murder in the first degree in having shot and killed his wife, Winifred, in that county on the 8th day of June, 1952. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, and fixed his punishment at eight years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Judgment and sentence went accordingly, and this appeal followed.
The narrow scope of the review sought...
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