State v. Noah
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court of Ward county; Cross, J. Defendant was informed against for murder in the first degree. He pleaded “guilty as charged in the information.” The court submitted the question of punishment to a jury, and it determined that the death penalty should be inflicted. Sentence of death was pronounced pursuant to verdict. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Morgan, Ch. J.
On the 3d day of April, 1908, the state’s attorney of Ward county informed against the defendant and filed an information against him, in which he was charged with murder in the first degree. On the 7th day of April, he was arraigned under such information, and plead “guilty as charged in the information.” The trial court *283impaneled a jury for the purpose of determining the punishment to be inflicted upon the defendant. After taking the testimony of witnesses, and the jury being charged by the court, they found that the defendant should be punished by the infliction of the death…
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