State v. Ryland

Tried for murder, defendant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in the State peniten tiary for a term of! live years for the killing of Joseph Weber at Kansas City on December 14, 1927, and has appealed.

The testimony of deceased’s son Karl Weber so clearly made a ease for the jury that we think it unnecessary to detail the evidence at any great length. Karl and his deceased father lived at 5309 Forest Avenue in Kansas Oity. Karl was twenty-four years old and deceased was fifty-seven. Karl’s mother died twenty-two years previously. At the age of nine Karl became a…