State v. Wilcox

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction on a charge of murder. The homicide on which the prosecution is based occurred on the 26th day of March, 1923, some 9 *292or io miles southwest of Platte, in Charles Mix County, on a farm owned by one Mattie Walters, an Indian woman. This farm had been rented to Eugene Wilcox, the father of appellant, during the season of 1922. There were two dwelling houses on the place, one of which was occupied by said Eugene Wilcox and his family, and the other by Mattie Walters and her husband, Bob' Walters, a white man. These houses were some 250 yards apart.…