State v. Bezemer

The defendant was prosecuted in the court below for the crime of murder in the first degree. The jury returned a verdict of guilt, but specially found that the death penalty should not be inflicted. The court by its judgment imposed a sentence of life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The defendant has appealed.

The information, omitting its formal parts, reads as follows:

“That he, the said Leo Bezemer, on or about the 19th day of August, 1931, in Pacific County, Washington, then and there being, did then and there with a pre-meditated design to effect the death of Robert Carlson, and without…