[DOWNLOAD] "State Missouri v. Grace Deyo" by Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2 * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Missouri v. Grace Deyo
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2
- Release Date : January 16, 1962
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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Grace Deyo, appellant, and one Bill Shindler, in an information filed in Ozark County, were charged jointly with the murder
in the first degree of Kenneth V. Deyo, the husband of said Grace Deyo, on or about July 28, 1959, by poison. There was a
severance and, upon trial, Honorable Douglas W. Greene, Judge of the Circuit Court of Greene County, presiding upon transfer,
appellant was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. She appeals. Mr. and Mrs. Deyo, with their three children, lived in the Almartha neighborhood, Ozark County, Missouri, near the Douglas
County line. A brief outline of the State's theory, as developed by its evidence and based upon a conspiracy between appellant
and Shindler, may aid in a more ready understanding of the case. The facts that are made issues for review are developed hereinafter.
Bill Shindler and Mrs. Deyo indulged in sexual relations. Mr. Deyo's practice was to take a vitamin before retiring. Bill
Shindler placed a capsule containing strychnine in the bottle containing Deyo's vitamins. Around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., July 27,
1959, Mr. Deyo took a capsule from his vitamin bottle, soon thereafter became sick, and died about midnight. The toxicological
and pathological examinations of his body disclosed that Mr. Deyo's death was due to acute poisoning by strychnine.