STATE v. WRIGHT

No. 47232.

336 S.W.2d 714 (1960)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Jessie WRIGHT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

July 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. McIlrath, Flat River, for appellant.

John M. Dalton, Atty. Gen., J. Burleigh Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


LEEDY, Presiding Judge.

Jessie Wright was charged in the Circuit Court of St. Francois County with murder in the first degree in having shot and killed Thomas J. Mann on February 4, 1958. Tried by a jury, she was found guilty of murder in the second degree, and her punishment fixed at ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary; judgment and sentence accordingly, from which she has appealed.

The points raised on this appeal assign error in the refusal of two...

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