BARRETT, Commissioner.
Charged with murder in the second degree in shooting Larry Eugene Oliver, a jury found the appellant Wayland Oliver Taylor guilty of manslaughter and fixed his punishment at the maximum, ten years' imprisonment. RSMo 1969, § 559.140, V.A. M.S.
In brief the circumstances were that on July 14, 1970, Oliver and his five adherents, including Philanders Brown, went to Volker Park to "mess around with them hippies." Some days previously...
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