State v. Blocker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

This opinion chronicles an unhappy train of events culminating in death and a murder conviction. The principals in the tragedy, Dorothy Blocker, the defendant, and Edward Russ, the deceased, had been intimately associated for some three years, although the relationship had become bitter and argumentative during the last three months. Edward Russ was a cross-country truck driver. He was a married man, no stranger to violence, and he nurtured a jealous disposition. Dorothy Blocker was an unmarried woman at the time, and was possessed of four…