State v. Kruchten

STRUCKMEYER, Chief Justice.

Lawrence George Kruchten, appellant herein, and Joseph William Janovic, Jr., appellant in Cause No. 1379 (decided this date), pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and for Yuma County to the crime of first degree murder. From the judgment of conviction and the sentence of death by the administration of lethal gas, this appeal has been perfected.

The facts may at this point be briefly summarized. Appellant and Janovic, both age 22 years and residents of Chicago, 111., had been working in California intermittently at various jobs for some…