State v. Christensen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoch, J.:

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree.

In view of the conclusion presently to be stated, brief recital of the facts will suffice. After an illness of a few hours' the husband of appellant, then Mrs. Birdie McDonald, died at Clay Center, Kan., on December 15, 1944. In the death certificate, the cause of death was stated to be acute coronary occlusion together with gastro enteritis. In August, 1947, the county attorney having secured the written consent of the widow and others, to have the body exhumed, the body was…