State v. Henson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

B. W. A. Henson was convicted of murdering his wife, and appeals.

He was born in 1848. He was married about 1868, and his first wife died about 1906. He married his second wife about November 1, 1915, in Missouri. He had been living.on a farm in Oklahoma for some ten years, but with his new wife he moved to Wichita, where they occupied a rented house, about December 10, 1915. She was 49 years of age, and had *583been married twice before, being divorced from her second husband, who was still alive. She had a son, known as Walter Schafer,…