Johnson v. State

The defendant. Amon Johnson, was charged in the district court of Lincoln county in case No. 2747, with the dime of murder of Martha Gorski, and was charged by information in the same court in case No. 2748, with the crime of murder of Mrs. Victoria Gorski. The defendant entered a plea of guilty in each of said cases and was sentenced to death in the electric chair at the State Penitentiary for said crimes by him so committed, from which judgment and sentence an appeal was taken to this court.

By agreement, the two cases were consolidated and appealed to this court as one case. The killings…