Grijalva v. State

Alfredo Grijalva was convicted of murder in the first degree and a sentence of life imprisonment imposed. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and the order overruling his motion for a new trial.

The record discloses that in the forenoon of April 23d, 1926, six officers, traveling in two Ford cars, left Nogales, Arizona, looking for persons who they had been informed were transporting whisky. They went north or northwest until about four or five o’clock that afternoon, when they reached a point in Pima county near the Alambre Ranch, where they saw, on the mountain-side a mile or so from…