State v. White & Stewart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.:

James S. Stewart and John Robert White were convicted of murder in the second degree, K.S.A. 21-3402, and felony theft of a motor vehicle, K.S.A. 21-3701. Both appeal, raising numerous points which will be taken up later in this opinion.

We summarize the evidence in the three-week trial as follows: About 1:45 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, July 27, 1975, two Wichita State University students who were employed by a janitorial service to clean an office building in Wichita discovered the body qí a man, wrapped in curtain or drapery material, near…