State v. Snow

*437The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

The defendant was convicted of. murder in the first degree, and appeals.

About ten o’clock on the morning of March 31, 1925, the defendant shot Arthur Seals with a shotgun on a public highway two miles west of the north part of Pleasanton; according to the defendant’s claim, in self-defense. Seals died in a hospital at Fort Scott about 1:45 p. m. the same day. The defendant and a brother, N. D. Snow, lived with Mrs. Lena Snow, their sister-in-law, in a house near the scene of the tragedy. Mrs. Snow is the widow of Ira Snow, who died in 1919.…