Kaparos v. State

Blume, Justice.

The defendant was accused of murder in the first degree, committed at about ten o’clock on the evening of July 4, 1932, upon one George Stavroulakis. Accused with him was one Mike Zinwdikis. Defendant demanded a separate trial. This was granted. Zinwdikis was tried first and he was convicted of murder in the first degree without capital punishment. Defendant, too, was convicted of the same crime, and the same penalty was meted out to him. From a sentence in conformity with the verdict, the defendant has appealed.

1. The main assignment of error herein is that the verdict is not…