State v. Eason

By an indictment returned in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis appellant was charged with murder in the second degree for the killing of her husband, James R. Eason, alias James Rowe. On a trial at the December, 1927, term of the court she was convicted of murder in the second degree and after her motion for new trial was overruled she was duly sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, in accordance with the verdict, and she appealed.

At the time of deceased's death he and defendant had been married about six years. His name was Eason, but he also went by the name of…