Supreme Court of Missouri October 27, 1902 (State v. Lynn)

BURGESS, J.

— Defendant was convicted in the circuit court of Washington county of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at ninety-nine years imprisonment in the State penitentiary, for having shot to death with a pistol at St. Erancois co-unty on May 13, 1900, one William Martin. He appeals.