Lopez v. State
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Cochise. Alfred O. Lockwood, Judge. STATEMENT OF FACTS BY THE COURT. The appellant, Felix Lopez, was tried and convicted of the willful, deliberate and premeditated murder of Rosendo Lugo, committed by stabbing with a knife. The jury fixed the punishment at imprisonment for life. On the tenth day of July, 1915, the court duly pronounced sentence and judgment in accordance with the verdict, and refused a new trial.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Cochise. Alfred O. Lockwood, Judge. STATEMENT OF FACTS BY THE COURT. The appellant, Felix Lopez, was tried and convicted of the willful, deliberate and premeditated murder of Rosendo Lugo, committed by stabbing with a knife. The jury fixed the punishment at imprisonment for life. On the tenth day of July, 1915, the court duly pronounced sentence and judgment in accordance with the verdict, and refused a new trial. From the judgment and order refusing a new trial the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtCunningham, J.
The information upon which the appellant was tried, convicted and sentenced is as follows:
“In the name and by the authority of the state of Arizona, Felix Lopez accused by the county attorney of Cochise county, state of Arizona, by this information, of the crime of murder committed as follows: The said Felix Lopez, on or about the 24th day of June, 1915, and before the filing of this information, at the county of Cochise, state of Arizona, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, premeditatedly, and deliberately, with his malice aforethought, kill and murder one Rosendo Lugo, a…
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