STATE v. BROOKS

No. 49327.

360 S.W.2d 622 (1962)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Lillie Mae BROOKS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

October 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Allen, Kansas City, for appellant.

Thomas F. Eagleton, Atty. Gen., Allen J. Roth, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


COIL, Commissioner.

Lillie Mae Brooks was convicted of second degree murder and her punishment fixed at twelve years in the state penitentiary. Inasmuch as she has filed no brief on her appeal from the ensuing judgment, we examine the assignments of error in her motion for new trial.

Assignment 11 was that the trial court erred in failing to sustain her motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of the state's case. Defendant waived that motion by offering...

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