State v. Kelbach

CALLISTER, Justice:

Defendants were convicted by a jury of murder in the first degree, without a recommendation for life imprisonment, and were sentenced to death. On appeal, defendants contend' that their ' convictions should be set aside, or, in the alternative, they should be awarded a new trial on the ground that the trial court deprived them of their constitutional rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

On December 21, 1966, defendants entered Lally’s Tavern, located in Salt Lake City, at approximately nine o’clock…