STATE v. CROSS

No. WD 32541.

629 S.W.2d 673 (1982)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Nathaniel Eugene CROSS, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

February 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Strauss, Public Defender, Columbia, for appellant.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Theodore A. Bruce, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Before SHANGLER, P. J., and PRITCHARD and DIXON, JJ.


SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was convicted by a jury of second degree murder and sentenced to a term of ten years. The appeal contends that the instruction which submitted the offense was erroneous.

On the morning of July 27, 1980, Clifford Nevels heard a gunshot strike the residence window, followed by other gunshots into the home. He found his mother collapsed in a chair, and bloodied and dead. She died of a bullet wound into the brain. The police...

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