STATE v. FORD

No. 57149.

491 S.W.2d 540 (1973)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Herschel FORD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

March 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Richard S. Paden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Joseph R. Schlozman, Julius Peltzman, Kansas City, for appellant.


SEILER, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction of manslaughter of Oliver Johnson, with a jury assessed sentence of two years' imprisonment. Since this appeal was pending here on January 1, 1972, the effective date of the 1970 amendment to the judicial article, the appeal comes within our exclusive jurisdiction as set by Art. V, Sec. 3, Mo. Const.1945, V.A.M.S., as it existed prior to the amendment.

The controversy on appeal is whether, even on the state...

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