State v. Oberst

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This appeal presents for review certain proceedings in the district court of Butler county wherein a seventeen-year-old boy was sentenced to imprisonment for life upon his plea of guilty to the murder of his father and mother and his five brothers and sisters.

None of the facts concerning this seven-fold tragedy was developed in court by sworn testimony; and aside from a few inferences which may be gleaned from the record this court is entirely without dependable data upon which an intelligible statement of the case can be formulated. It…