State v. Flory

Blume, Chief Justice.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree for killing E. T. Ostrum on January 16, 1928, and he appeals.

The deceased, aged between 65 to 70 years, was the father of Daisy Flory, the wife of defendant, who is about 21 years of age, and who married defendant in 1923. The mother and father of Daisy were, it seems, divorced, for a number of years prior to the homicide in question in this case. The father apparently was not well acquainted with his daughter and paid little attention to her, although he sent her some small presents when her two children, aged…