State v. Hubbard

A jury found Charles Hubbard guilty of murder in the first degree in killing Mae Bell Cunningham and assessed his punishment at death.

Independently of Hubbard's confession the state's evidence established these facts: In October, 1940, Mae Bell and her husband left their home in Kansas City and went to her brother's, Wash Sowell's, in St. Louis. The husband returned to Kansas City the next day and his wife remained in St. Louis, making her home at 3419 Market Street with her brother and his wife. Although Mae Bell's husband came to St. Louis with her and wrote to her and on at least two…