STATE v. CROSS

No. 61799.

594 S.W.2d 609 (1980)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Charles L. CROSS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

February 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Babione, Public Defender, St. Louis, for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Kathryn Marie Krause, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.


SEILER, Judge.

Defendant's appeal from his conviction by jury of second degree murder and a forty year sentence went first to the Court of Appeals, Eastern District, which transferred the case here for reexamination of existing law on whether the trial court was required to give an instruction on diminished mental capacity. We do not reach that question, however, because the case has to be reversed and remanded on another ground and when tried again the court will...

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