State v. Ryan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Arthur Ryan was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and appeals. The former conviction for the same *550homicide was set aside for prejudicial error. (State v. Ryan, 137 Kan. 733, 22 P. 2d 418.)

Defendant is a colored man, and prior to this homicide he had resided for some years in the three-room house of a colored woman, Lou Taylor, otherwise known as Lou Beck, in Atchison. They were not formally married to each other, and both had police-court records, he for petit larceny and vagrancy; she had been fined and jailed for some breach…