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296 Mo. 389

246 S.W 932

State v. Shields

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided December 22, 1922

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1922-12-22

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Decided 1922-12-22

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Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1984

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¶1The foregoing opinion by WHITE, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court. All of the judges concur; David E. Blair, J., in separate opinion; Walker Higbee, JJ., concur in result.

¶2I concur in all of the majority opinion, except that portion of Paragraph VIII criticising an instruction dealing with the testimony of Lloyd Hopson. I do not agree that, "This instruction is clearly a comment upon the evidence. It singles out the testimony of Lloyd Hopson and places undue emphasis upon it. In effect it tells the jury to believe Hopson if Shields had any arrangement with Hines."

¶3The jury was correctly told that Hopson's testimony should be considered by it only in the event it found a conspiracy to burn the store existed at the time of such alleged conversation. The instruction does not assume that such conversation occurred, since it refers to it as an "alleged conversation." If the jury did not find such conspiracy existed, it should not consider such alleged conversation. If it did find the conspiracy existed *406 and did find such conversation actually occurred, then the jury was authorized to consider "such conversation along with the other evidence in the case." It was a proper instruction and favorable to defendant. I therefore concur in the result.Higbee, P.J., concurs herein.

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