Foster v. State

The defendant, Charles R. Poster, upon a charge of murdering on February 16, 1929, one Martin Parko in Cochise county, was by the verdict of a jury of that county, found guilty and condemned to suffer death. From the verdict and the judgment and sentence of the court pronounced in accordance with the verdict, he has appealed.

While every 'material issue of the information filed against defendant was of course traversed by the plea of not guilty, the only issue upon which defendant offered any evidence was that of his sanity. He undertook to show that he was not guilty by reason of his…