State v. Dietz

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of murder in the second degree. Summarized, the bill of exceptions shows that the defendant is a native of Germany, who came to this country three years and a few months preceding the homicide *577in question and had since his arrival acquired a fair knowledge of our language. In September, 1896, he entered the employment of Judge Barzillai Gray. Judge Gray’s house and farm are in the outskirts of Kansas City, Wyandotte County, and the chief duties of the defendant were to protect the premises from the intrusion and spoliation of trespassers and…