State v. Owen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wbdell, J.:

This is an appeal by the defendant from a conviction of murder in the second degree.

The charge was that appellant committed the murder of one Roy Meredith Cole by means of a firearm, to wit, a shotgun. This is the second appearance of the case in this court. (State v. Owen, 161 Kan. 361,168 P. 2d 917.) Following our opinion on the first appeal *256the appellant, upon request, was given leave to file an amended abstract in order to show he had filed a motion for a new trial. Having made that showing here this court allowed a rehearing. In their…