People v. Bollinger

The defendant was charged by indictment with the crime of murder. He pleaded not guilty to the indictment, was tried on the charge, and found guilty of murder in the first degree, the verdict carrying the death penalty. In due course a motion for a new trial was interposed by defendant and denied, whereupon judgment of death was pronounced upon him. The appeal is from said judgment sentencing him to death and from the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The evidence introduced at the trial tends to show that on May 27, 1924, C. J. McCoy, sheriff of Tuba County, was informed, by…