State v. Gilreath

BERNSTEIN, Vice Chief Justice. .

Appellant, William Gilreath was found guilty of first degree murder after a trial by jury in the Superior Court of Maricopa County and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Arizona State. Prison. Court appointed counsel moved this .court to allow submission of the appeal on the record in that counsel was unable to find grounds on which an appeal could be based. Accordingly we have searched the record for fundamental error as is required by A.R. S. § 13-1715.

On December 12, 1964 at eight o’clock in the evening Appellant’s wife was so severe ly cut and…