State v. Barr

Dudley Barr was convicted in the Circuit Court of Jackson County of the murder, in the first degree, of Walter Milton, and prosecutes this appeal as a poor person.

The State's evidence: One George Kondos operated the "Flying Cloud Policy Wheel," patronized by colored people at Twelfth and Lydia Streets, Kansas City, Missouri. The wheel was "pulled" every evening at six o'clock. A number of people had arrived there for the drawing on December 14, 1932, when, about six o'clock, appellant, who was unmasked, and a masked companion, each armed with and flourishing a gun, entered the place.…