State v. Beasley

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzeb, J.:

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree. (K. S. A. 21-401.) The jury’s verdict fixed the appellant’s punishment at confinement and hard labor in the Kansas State Penitentiary for life.

On October 30, 1967, Beasley entered the premises of the Hudson and Odom Tire Company located in the Fairfax Industrial District in Kansas City, and in an attempt to perpetrate a robbery of that establishment, he shot to death George Felker, an employee.

Beasley was observed while on the premises and was subsequently identified by an…