Bartlett v. State

Henry E. Bartlett was informed against, tried and convicted of having murdered Asa Ransom in Kearney county. The jury brought in a verdict of first degree murder and imposed the death penalty. , A new trial was denied. Thereupon the court sentenced defendant to suffer death by electrocution. Alleging error, defendant’s counsel have brought the record here for review.

The state submitted evidence which discloses, substantially the following material facts: Soon after midnight, in the very early morning of October 19, 1924, somé person, then unknown, burglariously broke and entered a Minden…