State v. Kazda

CALLISTER, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a conviction by a jury of the crimes of assault with intent to commit murder and robbery.

On February 20, 1962, an elderly man was robbed and shot at his home in Bridgeland, Utah. A Mrs. Norma Barker testified that she had accompanied the defendant and his brother, Dennis, in an automobile from Salmon, Idaho to Bridgeland where the two brothers put nylon stockings over their heads, took a sawed-off shotgun and entered the home. Upon their return they told her of the robbery and shooting.

Prior to defendant’s trial Mrs. Barker had been convicted of being…