State v. Hendricks
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Chautauqua District Court. Prosecution for murder iu the first degree. The defendant, Mnma Hendricks, and her husband, were jointly charged with the murder of Thomas McGuire in Chautauqua county, on November 25, 1883. Separate trials were granted to the defendants. Trial of Mnma Hendricks at the March Term, 1884, of the district court, when she was found guilty, of murder in the second degree.
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Appeal from Chautauqua District Court. Prosecution for murder iu the first degree. The defendant, Mnma Hendricks, and her husband, were jointly charged with the murder of Thomas McGuire in Chautauqua county, on November 25, 1883. Separate trials were granted to the defendants. Trial of Mnma Hendricks at the March Term, 1884, of the district court, when she was found guilty, of murder in the second degree. The court overruled her motion for a new trial, and also her motion in arrest of judgment; and sentenced her to imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary. From this sentence she…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was a criminal prosecution for murder in the first degree. The defendant, Emma Hendricks, and her husband, Cyrenus B. Hendricks, were charged jointly upon information with the murder of Thomas McGuire, in Chautauqua county, Kansas, on November 25, 1883. Separate trials were granted to the defendants, and on March 20 to 22, 1884, the defendant Emma Hendricks was tried before the court and a jury, and on the last-mentioned date she was found guilty of murder in the second degree. She then filed a motion for a new trial and also a…
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