Blackburn v. State

— Charles J. Blackburn, appellant herein, was convicted of the murder of one Miguel Bernal and the death penalty imposed. From this judgment and the order overruling his motion for a new trial he appeals.

The sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict is not raised, but the disposition of the questions presented by the assignments will more readily appear if a rather full statement of the facts is given. Miguel Bernal came to Arizona from Mexico in 1919 and located in the vicinity of Mesa, Maricopa county. Upon arrival he began work as a farm laborer, and in the main followed this…