State v. Sorter
Supreme Court of Kansas
f Appeal from Wyandotte District Court. Prosecution for murder; trial at the December term, 1890; verdict, guilty of murder in the second degree; new trial denied; the defendant, Fred. Sorter, sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for 10 years. He appeals. All the material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
This was a prosecution for murder. The information charged Fred. Sorter with murder in the first degree, in the feloniously billing of Enoch J. Link, on the 30th day of May, 1890, by shooting him with a double-barrel shotgun. The trial resulted in a conviction of murder in the second degree, and the defendant was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of 10 years. In the course of a protracted trial, a great many exceptions were taken to the rulings of the court, and such of them as seem to us to require attention will…
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