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STATE v. COOLEY

No. 50663.

387 S.W.2d 544 (1965)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Melvin COOLEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

March 8, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., O. Hampton Stevens, Asst. Atty., Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Morris M. Hatchett, St. Louis, for appellant.

HIGGINS, Commissioner.

An indictment charged that on July 4, 1963, Melvin Cooley and Robert Cooley feloniously, willfully, premeditatedly, on purpose, and of their malice aforethought, with a knife "did strike, cut, stab, and wound" Odell Davis, inflicting a mortal wound from which he died on September 1, 1963. Melvin Cooley was granted severance and, upon trial, a jury found him guilty of manslaughter and assessed his...

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