State v. McReynolds

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Harvey, J.:

Three colored men, Lloyd McReynolds, Vernon Clay and David Parker, were charged jointly with the murder of Charles Lambert, who was shot and killed June 7,1924, on the main highway leading'from Kansas City to Leavenworth. Lloyd McReynolds was tried separately and found guilty of murder in the first degree, and he has appealed. The state’s theory was that the defendants were equally guilty, and the evidence on behalf of the state tended to show the following facts;

Lambert was engaged in the produce business at Leavenworth, where he bought…