State v. Pyle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Harry Pyle was convicted of murder in the first de*773gree for alleged participation in the killing of August Reiter on the night of December 23,1934.

The murdered man was one of two bachelor brothers who resided on a farm in Stafford county about a mile and a half southwest of a placed called Willinger filling station and about five and a half miles northeast of the city of Hudson. August and his brother Otto were wealthy farmers. They had $24,000 in government bonds buried near their home. The fact that the brothers possessed bonds was one of…