State v. Hicks

The defendant was indicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County for the murder of one Martin Erickson. Upon a trial defendant was convicted and sentenced to an imprisonment in the penitentiary for life:

The murder occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, on the evening of May 21, 1926. Two women, who testified for the State, witnessed the tragedy. They were, at the time, sitting on a porch of the residence of one of them. They saw, sitting on the doorstep of a building about seventy-five feet away, a man and a woman. The woman screamed, the man caught her by the hand, and they rose and ran towards…