STATE v. LASPY

No. 45511.

298 S.W.2d 357 (1957)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Elsie Mae LASPY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

February 11, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus Burrus, Independence, for appellant.

John M. Dalton, Atty. Gen., Winston Cook, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


STOCKARD, Commissioner.

About six fifteen o'clock of the morning of January 1, 1955, defendant Elsie Mae Laspy shot and killed her husband, Julius Laspy. She has appealed from a judgment imposing a sentence of imprisonment for twenty years for murder in the second degree. Defendant contended that she killed Laspy in self-defense.

The shooting climaxed an all-night party in the Laspy home which was attended by numerous people. There was drinking and dancing...

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