State v. King

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant, Rufus King, was convicted of the murder of one John A. Woody, which crime occurred on or about the first of April, 1909. Woody was a young man who worked for *142King in the spring of that year. King then operated a livery barn at Maple Hill in Wabaunsee -county. About the first of April, Woody disappeared and was never 'afterwards seen alive. In August, 1919, the skeleton of Woody was found buried face downward in the livery barn lot, under the manure pile or thereabout. The hyoid bone of the throat of the skeleton had been…