State v. Johnson

SADLER, Justice.

Defendant prosecutes this appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree.

About the hour of midnight on November 15, 1931, the victim of this tragedy, a young lady eighteen years of age, was criminally assaulted and murdered in her bedroom at the home of her mother on Griffin street in the city of Santa Fé. Near the same hour a brutal assault with a hammer was made up.on the person of Oscar Churchill, night man at Andrews Garage on Water street in said city, the cash register of the garage looted, and a car belonging to the garage stolen.

A few hours thereafter, Thomas…