State v. Olander

— All the evidence, and everything that was said-and done in this matter in the district court, was taken' down by the reporter. The court carefully guarded every right of the defendant. This is conceded. There is no error in the record, unless it be that the penalty of death is excessive.

The deceased, Halfpap, an honorable citizen, while engaged with his duties as a merchant, was killed by a shot from a revolver, held in the hands of this defendant, while he and two confederates, Otis Goble and Elmer Sweeny, were perpetrating a robbery. At the time of the hearing herein, Goble and Sweeny had…