State v. Sprout

BOHLING, Commissioner.

Leían D. Sprout appeals from a judgment imposing a sentence of fifteen years’ imprisonment for the murder in the second degree of Cledo Olvera. No brief has been filed here on behalf of the defendant. Many issues are raised or attempted to be raised in defendant’s motion for new trial. They relate to the evidence, the instructions and other alleged trial errors, and insofar as essential to a disposition of this appeal will be considered.

Several assignments question the submissibility of the State’s case. In ruling this issue the probative evidence favorable to the State…