Estes v. State

Henry Estes was convicted in the district court of Ottawa county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree on an information charging, him with the murder of one Delmar Fugate, alleged to have been committed on: the 25th day of May, 1933, and his punishment fixed by the jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

It was the theory of the state that defendant was angered at deceased because he had betrayed defendant’s daughter and refused to marry her; that defendant armed himself and went to the home of deceased for the purpose of compelling him to marry the…