State v. Roberson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

The defendant, Bobby N. Roberson, was convicted of murder in the second degree. He was sentenced to be confined in the Kansas State Penitentiary for a term of not less than ten years. He has appealed from that judgment.

The setting for the tragedy was the 200 block on East Ninth Street in Junction City, Kansas, an area where it was a common practice, so we are told, for people to assemble on Saturday for social purposes, especially when Saturday came at the last of tihe month. The date of the homicide was August 30, 1969; the time, shortly…