State v. Smith

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

The defendant, Annie Smith, was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of Annie Pierce.

On the evening of the 14th of September, 1944, the defendant, who was looking for her husband, went to the Cozy Inn, located at 5th and Oakland streets in Kansas City, Kansas. She found him sitting at a table in company with the deceased and her sister, Lorene Walters. She went in, talked with him without making any disturbance or without saying a word to either of the two women, requested that he come home and finally, as she states, at…