[DOWNLOAD] "State v. Fouts" by Supreme Court of Kansas * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State v. Fouts
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 31, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree. On the morning of April 22, 1949, Grace Nutt, who was thirty-six years of age and living with her husband, William H. Nutt, was murdered in her farm home on highway No. 160, 10 miles east of Parsons, Kan., in Labette county, between the hours of 8:20 a.m. and 10:20 a.m. Her death, which occurred at 1:20 p.m. on that day, was the direct result of two shots fired from a 38-caliber pistol. Under the evidence there can be no question but what the person who killed her came to the home and found Mrs. Nutt in the kitchen at a time when the screen door of that room precluded ready entrance because it was fastened by a hook. The first shot, which grazed Mrs. Nutt's right temple and knocked her down, was fired through the screen door before an attempt was made to enter the kitchen, Thereafter, whoever fired it forcibly opened the door, entered the kitchen, and then at close range fired a second and fatal shot into the back part of her head. There were no eye witnesses to the crime and Mrs. Nutt who remained unconscious until she died was unable to identify her assailant.