State v. Post

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

Defendant, George Post, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and appeals.

About midnight of Friday, January 6, 1933, defendant shot and killed Forrest Woodring. That night defendant’s wife, Beulah Post, who was allowing Forrest to display an amorous disposition toward her, was brutally beaten. Forrest was thirty-three, and single. Mrs. Post was thirty-four, and her husband was nineteen years older.

Forrest’s father, Roy Woodring, and his wife, who was Forrest’s stepmother, lived a city block from the Posts, and on the opposite side of…