State v. Gartrell
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Bates Circuit Court.— Hon. W. W. Graves, Judge. (1) The ease should have been continued on the application of defendant. One of the defenses was defendant’s insanity. To prove this he had made an effort to obtain the testimony of Judge Dudley, Doctor Black, Ms former wife, Mrs. E. G. Seligson, Ms daughter, and Dr. Rhodes. These witnesses lived in different parts of the country and had known defendant under different circumstances.
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Appeal from Bates Circuit Court.— Hon. W. W. Graves, Judge. (1) The ease should have been continued on the application of defendant. One of the defenses was defendant’s insanity. To prove this he had made an effort to obtain the testimony of Judge Dudley, Doctor Black, Ms former wife, Mrs. E. G. Seligson, Ms daughter, and Dr. Rhodes. These witnesses lived in different parts of the country and had known defendant under different circumstances. Judge Dudley had known the defendant in California, during the year 1889. Defendant’s daughter had been with him in recent years, 1895-6-7, in Texas.…
1Opinion of the CourtGantt, P. J.
From a conviction, of murder in the first degree the defendant appeals.
On or about the middle of March, 1901, H. B. Donegan, who had been living in Victor, Colorado, engaged in mining and investing in mining stocks in a limited way, appeared in Kansas City, Missouri. About that *498time he purchased a wagon and team at the sale stables of J. J. Kirby, 526 Grand avenue, in said city, paying cash for the same.
On March 18, 1901, three men, strangers in that community, were observed in the neighborhood of Amoret, a town on the .western border of Bates county, traveling in a new two-liorse farm wagon.…
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