(DOWNLOAD) "State Missouri v. William Foster" by Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2 ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Missouri v. William Foster
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri Division 2
- Release Date : January 10, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
Description
Upon a charge of murder in the second degree in shooting and killing Louise Massey the appellant, William Foster, has been
found guilty of manslaughter and his punishment fixed at nine years' imprisonment. This is the background in which Louise came to her death and the context in which some of Foster's claims of error must be
considered: William Foster and Louise Massey and her three children, Larry, Linda and Janice, all lived together in a second-floor
apartment at 819A Hodiamont Avenue. In the course of the trial Louise was referred to as Foster's "wife" and he was often
referred to as "the father" of the children. According to Foster all his pay checks went to Louise and they lived together
in peace and harmony as husband and wife. Foster says that he loved Louise and of course did not intentionally shoot her.
He says that they lived together as husband and wife for three or four years, "all together" he had been "staying with" Louise
"off and on" since 1951, but "We didn't get married because I wasn't - never had get to it." He was the father of little Janice
but he was not the father, "Not as I know," of Larry, age 12, or of Linda, age 10. As to his living in their home Linda says,
"He came to stay sometimes, but he didn't stay there all the time." She says that she saw "trouble" between Foster and Louise
two or three times and, she said, "He sometimes would hit her." Larry said that he had heard Foster threaten his mother, threaten
to kill her but "the next morning they was playing." Larry saw Foster hit his mother "one time when they was fighting" and
once, "He hit her with a shoe." Foster said, "We had had quarrels. We never had much of a fight. One time she hit me on the
head with an umbrella, and I hit her on the behind with a shoe."
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