State v. Zakoura

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal by Albert M. Zakoura, who was convicted and sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife in the city of Paola on Sunday morning, December 1, 1935.

*805Before considering the errors urged against the judgment, it will be helpful to an understanding of the case to state certain facts antecedent to the tragedy which are contained in the record.

The defendant and his wife were married in Osawatomie in March, 1921. He was then twenty years old; his wife was about sixteen years old. They resided for a time in Osawatomie and then…