State v. Wolfe

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fatzer, J.:

On November 22, 1963, the defendant, Clarence Wolfe, Jr., a/k/a Jerry Wolfe, while serving a sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary, at Lansing, was charged with the murder of George H. Douglass, an inmate of the penitentiary. Thereafter, the defendant was tried and convicted by a jury in Leavenworth County for murder in the first degree as defined in G. S. 1949, 21-401.

Following the trial, the defendant, by and through his attorney, filed a motion for a new trial which was considered by the district court on March 26, 1964, and…