STATE v. NEWLON

No. 50870.

721 S.W.2d 89 (1986)

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Virginia NEWLON, Defendant-Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Two.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied November 25, 1986.

Application to Transfer Denied January 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Robertson, Layne C. Lohr, Asst. Public Defenders, St. Louis, for defendantappellant.

William L. Webster, Atty. Gen., Kurt Hentz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.


REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree and was sentenced in accordance with the punishment assessed by the jury to fifteen years' imprisonment. She appeals, asserting that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter and in admitting testimony objected to as hearsay. Because of the trial court's failure to give the requested manslaughter instruction, we reverse and remand for a new trial...

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