Rascon v. State of Arizona

This is an appeal by Frank Rascón from a conviction of murder in the first degree and a judgment and sentence imposing the death penalty. He assigns eight errors and discusses them under five propositions of law, the correctness of which depends wholly upon the facts adduced at the trial.

It appears from the record that on the afternoon of June 11, 1935, between 1 and 2 o’clock, the defendant, Frank Rascón, his wife and father, riding in a Ford truck, drove up to the Roach Roberts’ ranch house located about eight miles southwest of Beardsley, Maricopa county, Arizona, and that as they…