State v. Moore

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

On the afternoon of April 18, 1901, a team of horses drawing a farm wagon and galloping along a country road in Cowley county, a short distance west of Winfield, without a driver, was stopped, and the wagon was found to contain the dead body of *621C. L. Wiltberger, a resident of Winfield, the owner of the team and wagon and the owner of a farm in the immediate vicinity. He was lying face upward in the bottom of the wagon-box, near its front end, with a bullet-hole through his head. The character of the wound disclosed that he had been shot from…