State v. Sweet
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Hamilton district court; George J. Downer, judge.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dawson, J.:
This defendant, Archibald C. Sweet, was convicted of murder in the first degree for having brought about the death of Nellie J. Byers, a rural-school teacher of Grant county. While this unfortunate young woman was returning from her school to her boarding house on the afternoon of October 22, 1915, she was assaulted on the open prairie, stripped and strangled, ravished and slain.
Sweet was charged with the crime, and arrested and taken to the Dodge City jail for safe-keeping. After some weeks he was taken by night, into the jurisdiction of…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- State of Kansas v. RobertsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1915
- State v. KornstettSupreme Court of Kansas · 1900
- State v. BaileySupreme Court of Kansas · 1884
- State v. BohanSupreme Court of Kansas · 1877
- Saylor v. CrookerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1916
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Odell v. HudspethCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1951
- State v. KingSupreme Court of Kansas · 1922
- State v. TurnerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1964
- Evans v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1941
- Terrell v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1968
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