State v. McLennan

Sam B. Shellabarger, a crossing watchman for the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company in Nampa, Canyon county, was killed on duty at the 9th Avenue crossing in said city about 10 o’clock on the night of March 14, 1923. An examination of the body made soon thereafter showed that death had been caused by a gunshot wound. The bullet had entered the left chest from the front a half inch internally of the nipple line at the third rib and passed out of the body posteriorly about two inches from the spine near the seventh rib.

On the following day appellant was arrested and formally charged with first…