State v. Mosley
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Lyon District Court. Information for murder in the first degree, filed June 5, 1882, jointly charging that the defendants Mary Isabel Martin and E. D. Mosley, on the 23d day of May, 1882, in the county of Lyon and state of Kansas, did then and there kill and murder one Loraine M. Keiger by administering to her strychnine.
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Appeal from Lyon District Court. Information for murder in the first degree, filed June 5, 1882, jointly charging that the defendants Mary Isabel Martin and E. D. Mosley, on the 23d day of May, 1882, in the county of Lyon and state of Kansas, did then and there kill and murder one Loraine M. Keiger by administering to her strychnine. The defendant Mosley was tried in February, 1883, and found guilty of murder in the first degree as charged in the information, by counseling, aiding and abetting the defendant Mary Isabel Martin in the commission of said murder. New trial denied, and judgment on…
1Opinion of the Court
*356The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
On June 5, 1882, Mary Isabel Martin and her son, E. D. Mosley, were jointly charged with the murder of Loraine M. Keiger, who died May 23, 1882, from the effect of poison. The trial of Mary Isabel Martin, the mother, was commenced on June 12, 1882. A verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree was rendered against her, and on December 29,1882, she was sentenced. The defendant Mosley was tried in February following, and convicted of murder in the first degree, for counseling, aiding and abetting*his mother in the commission of the…
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