State v. Vest

ROY, C.

Murder Under a prosecution for murder in the first degree, defendant was convicted of murder in ^ie second degree and his punishment assessed by the jury at ten years in the penitentiary. He is a farmer, twenty-six yearsi of age, living on a farm where he was born and has lived continuously. At the time of the tragedy he had been married about four years. He had one child about two years old. The wife and boy had both been sick, and were convalescent; the wife being able to do part of the housework. She was assisted by Pearl Barker, a girl of about twenty years of age, who had been…