State v. Schelske

During the summer and fall of 1935 defendant, Milton Schelske, a young man somewhat past 23 years of age, lived at home, as he always had, with his father, David Schelske, his mother and two sisters. The family residence had 'been for some years upon the David Schelske farm, the southeast quarter of section 29 in township 40 north, range 32 west, in Mellette county,, S. D. David Schelske also leased and farmed during the season of 1935 a tract of land known as the Sieler place in section 30, a half mile west of the Schelske home.

One Otto Bertsch owned and operated during the farming season of…