Shumway v. State

R. Mead Shumway, who, for convenience, will hereafter be called the defendant, was tried in the district court for Gage county on an information containing two counts. The first count charged him with the crime of murder in the first degree for the killing of one Sarah Martin with deliberate and premeditated malice, and by the second count he was charged with murder in the same degree for killing the said Sarah Martin in the perpetration of a robbery. His trial resulted in a verdict of guilty as charged in the second count of the information, and the jury imposed upon him the death penalty.…