State v. McCoy

*673The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J. :

This tale of youth and love and crime and death is briefly told. In the autumn of the year 1903 Oora Palmer and Will McCoy ran away and were married. She was seventeen and he was twenty. They stayed for a little while with his parents in Kansas City, and then she was called to her former home in Longton by the fatal illness of her father. After her father’s funeral she returned, but soon went home again to her mother. This time her husband accompanied her, remained with her a week, and then resumed his work as a machinist in Kansas City.…