STATE v. RICHARDSON

No. 49333.

364 S.W.2d 552 (1963)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. James Wilbert RICHARDSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

February 11, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Burt, Columbia, for appellant.

Thomas F. Eagleton, Atty. Gen., Frank P. Motherway, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

Upon a charge of murder in the second degree, James W. Richardson, age 19, had been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. The appellant's trial counsel timely filed a motion for a new trial setting forth, together with numerous subdivisions, sixteen specifications of error. A large number of these specifications of error are so lacking in detailed particularity or in their failure to set forth the "specific grounds...

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