Lawrence v. State

— About midnight on the 5th of February, 1925, Haze Burch, at that time a police officer in the employ of the city of Phoenix, was shot and fatally wounded. He was immediately carried to the hospital, and on his way there, and while in it, he made certain statements describing the man he claimed had done tlie shooting- and his companion. The alarm was immediately given, and search was made throughout the district for two men of this description. The next day William A. Lawrence, hereinafter called defendant, and Babe Lawrence, his brother, were arrested by the city marshal of Tempe on the…