Faltin v. State
Arizona Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Maricopa, J. C. Phillips, Judge. STATEMENT OF FACTS BY THE COURT. The appellant is charged and convicted of the willful and deliberate murder of Carl Peterson, committed on the ninth day of September, 1912, by crushing his head with an iron bar or other blunt instrument. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree and fixed the punishment at death.
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APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the County of Maricopa, J. C. Phillips, Judge. STATEMENT OF FACTS BY THE COURT. The appellant is charged and convicted of the willful and deliberate murder of Carl Peterson, committed on the ninth day of September, 1912, by crushing his head with an iron bar or other blunt instrument. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree and fixed the punishment at death. Briefly, the circumstances relied upon for a conviction are as follows: Appellant bought and moved on a tract of land in the early part of the year 1912. The…
1Opinion of the CourtCunningham, J.
-The appellant complains of certain instructions given the jury by the court; of the refusal of the court to give.instructions requested by the appellant; of the order ref using, a, new trial; of the denial of challenges of jurors; of the admission.of evidence; of the rejection of evidence offered; of the introduction of certain testimony because the witness had been convicted of a felony • of the misconduct-of the prosecuting attorney, and the misconduct of-the judge during the trial.
*285The first instruction attacked by appellant is stated to be “not an ‘instruction,’ being a mere philosophical…
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