State v. Uhls

*378The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Dr. Kenn B. Uhls was prosecuted upon a charge of killing William E. Gibbs and convicted of murder in the second degree. He appeals.

Gibbs was an aged recluse living alone in a small house in Hutchinson. On the morning of December 30, 1923, his body was discovered by a neighbor, her attention having been attracted because of seeing the light of a coal-oil lamp in his home on the evening before, again at about eleven o’clock, and again about five-thirty in the morning. The body was lying in a large pool of blood near a small table and an…