State v. Clark

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Robb, J.:

Defendant appeals from the trial court’s judgment and order based on the jury’s verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree with penalty affixed by the jury at life imprisonment under G. S. 1949, 21-403, from adverse rulings of the trial court during the selection of the jury, from failure of the court properly to instruct the jury, and from all adverse rulings including the order overruling the motion for new trial.

For many years defendant had been an employee of the Rock Island Railroad Company and was well known in Belleville, Kansas.…