State v. Bowles

Maxwell, Judge:

Bernard E. Bowles, convicted in the circuit court of Boone County of the murder in the second degree of Averil Sutphin and sentenced to penitentiary confinement of five years, prosecutes this writ of error.

Between eight and nine o’clock of the evening of September 8, 1934, Bowles shot Sutphin with a revolver in a confectionery in the village of Nellis, Boone County. Death resulted within probably less than five minutes.

Bowles, a constable, armed with a revolver, entered the confectionery a few minutes before the shot was fired. At the time of his entry the deceased was in the…