People v. Gilbert

THE COURT.

The appealing defendants pleaded guilty to the crime of murder, committed during the commission of the crime of robbery. They do not dispute the facts which legally and admittedly constitute their crime murder in the first degree, but they appeal from judgments of death imposed by the trial court and contend that such court abused its discretion in several particulars hereinafter severally discussed., They seek to have the sentences modified to life imprisonment. The State challenges the power of this court, in view of its prior decisions, to consistently make such modifications. As…