State v. Cruse

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DawsoN, J.:

The defendant, George W. Cruse, was convicted of uxoricide.

The evidence for the state tended to show that George W. Cruse and Ella Cruse, his wife, resided in a duplex house in Wichita, and that their married life was stormy, and that the defendant became enamored with a young woman in Topeka, Kathleen Foley. He told her and her parents that his wife was a bad woman who kept a rooming and gambling house in Denver, and that he had not lived with her for four years and that he was going to get a divorce from her. He became engaged to Miss…