State v. Turner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.;

Jack Newkirk, a resident of Lenora, in Norton county, disappeared between ten and eleven o’clock on the night of September 6, 1922. On May 5, 1923, his remains were found in a field about fifty or sixty feet from the public highway running from Norton, Kan., to Beaver City, Neb., about two miles north of the state line. W. L. Turner, charged with his death, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and now appeals.

The principal contention on which a reversal is asked is that there was no substantial evidence of his guilt. The following is…