Troop v. State

Plaintiffs in error, who will hereafter be referred to as the defendants, were convicted of murder in the first degree, without recommendation to mercy, for the killing of Mary McMillan. The trial judge granted a new trial. Upon a second trial defendants were again convicted and sentenced to death. It is to the latter judgment that this writ of error is prosecuted.

In this court, the argument of the State for affirmance and of the defendants for reversal is addressed principally to the sufficiency of the evidence to éstablish the identity of these defendants as the perpetrators of the crime,…