State v. Smith

OPINION OF THE COURT

BICKLEY, J.

This case arose in the district court of Valencia county, N. M., by reason of the finding and filing therein of an indictment by the grand jury at the September term, 1923, of the district court thereof, against Bernard Young Smith and Mack Clyde McCulley, wherein the said Smith and McCulley were charged with having unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, of their malice aforethought, killed and murdered one William R. Carman.' To this indictment the defendants and each of them pleaded not guilty, and upon this issue the cause proceeded…