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Title: State v. Booker
Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
Release Date : January 09, 1967
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 57 KB

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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is a second appeal by the defendant, Edna Mae Booker, from a second conviction of first degree manslaughter. Our opinion in the first appeal is reported in State v. Booker, 197 Kan. 13, 415 P.2d 411, and will be referred to in the course of this opinion. The defendant was charged with the first degree murder of her husband, James Booker, by shooting him with a pistol at 5 p.m. on March 8, 1965, in their home in Wichita. She was tried by a jury and convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. (K.S.A. 21-407.) On appeal the first conviction was reversed and the case remanded for a new trial. The defendant was again tried on a charge of first degree murder and again convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. Defendant's motion for a new trial was heard