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- Title: State v. Wood
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 15, 1982
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is a direct appeal by the defendant, Jeffrey J. Wood, from a conviction of murder in the second degree (K.S.A. 21-3402), after trial on a charge of first-degree murder. This case arose out of a homicide which occurred in Lenexa, Kansas, on December 8, 1979. It was undisputed that the defendant's wife, Jaylene Wood, was killed by a charge from a 20-gauge shotgun while she was sitting on a couch in the couple's home. After Jaylene was killed, the defendant admittedly shot himself intentionally with another charge from the same gun. The only actual witness to the shooting was the defendant himself. It was undisputed that the weapon was in the defendant's hand at the time the fatal shot was discharged. The basic issue in the case was the defendant's intent — Was the killing intentional or unintentional or only an accident? The State's theory was that the defendant intentionally and maliciously murdered his wife and then shot himself. It was defendant's theory that the shooting of his wife was accidental, and, then, being grief-stricken, defendant shot himself. The jury believed the State's version of the evidence and found the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree.
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