State v. Brown

Defendant has appealed from a judgmént of conviction of-murder in the second degree and a sentence of twelve years' imprisonment in the State penitentiary.. The State’s evidence tended to show that shortly before November 17, 1941 the defendant hired one Mark Hunolt and paid him $50 to help defendant’s minor son Stanley Brown put Mrs. Dora Bachstein into a cistern. About midnight on November 17, 1941 Stanley Brown came to the Hunolt residence for him and the two proceeded to the Bachstein residence in Shelby county where Mrs. Bachstein, a 73 year old widow, lived alone on a farm. They entered…