STATE v. BLOCKER

No. 46,725

211 Kan. 185 (1973)

505 P.2d 1099

STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. DOROTHY R. BLOCKER, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed January 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Marietta, of the firm of Marietta, Kellogg & Lord, of Salina, argued the cause, and Charles S. Scott, of the firm of Scott, Scott, Scott & Jackson, of Topeka, was with him on the brief for the appellant.

Bill Crews, county attorney, argued the cause, and Vern Miller, attorney general, was with him on the brief for the appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

FONTRON, J.:

This opinion chronicles an unhappy train of events culminating in death and a murder conviction. The principals in the tragedy, Dorothy Blocker, the defendant, and Edward Russ, the deceased, had been intimately associated for some three years, although the relationship had become bitter and argumentative during the last three months. Edward Russ was a cross-country truck driver. He was a married man, no...

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