State v. Mowry
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Cowley District Court. Prosecution for murder in the first degree. The defendant, Henry Mowry, was charged with the unlawful, willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of James P. Smith, in Cowley county, Kansas, on the 21st day of August, 1885. Trial at the April Term, 1886, of the district court, and conviction of the crime as charged. The defense interposed was insanity and self-defense. New trial denied; judgment in accordance with the verdict.
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Appeal from Cowley District Court. Prosecution for murder in the first degree. The defendant, Henry Mowry, was charged with the unlawful, willful, deliberate and premeditated killing of James P. Smith, in Cowley county, Kansas, on the 21st day of August, 1885. Trial at the April Term, 1886, of the district court, and conviction of the crime as charged. The defense interposed was insanity and self-defense. New trial denied; judgment in accordance with the verdict. The defendant appeals. The opinion contains a sufficient statement of the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
At the April term, 1886, of the district court of Cowley county, Henry Mowry was prosecuted and convicted for the murder of James P. Smith. He seeks a reversal on the alleged insufficiency of the evidence and supposed errors in charging the jury. It is conceded that he shot and killed Smith on the afternoon of April 21, 1886; but he defended on the ground that he was insane and irresponsible. There is testimony that in December, 1884, he began boarding at the house of O. F. Godfrey, his partner in business, whose *371family consisted of…
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