State v. Kunkel

On November 22, 1924, a grand jury of Chariton County, Missouri, filed in the circuit court of said county, an indictment charging defendant with murder in the first degree, in having feloniously shot Willard Cowen, in said county on September 25, 1924, which said shooting resulted in the death of said Cowen on the following day.

On December 22, 1924, a change of venue was granted defendant, and Judge Arch B. Davis, of the 36th Judicial Circuit, was called as special judge to try said cause. Defendant was duly arraigned, entered a plea of not guilty, and on her application the cause was…