Territory of New Mexico v. Hall

Appellant, William Hall, was in the district court of the Fifth judicial district of the Territory of New Mexico, within and for the county of Chavez, on the fifteenth day of March, 1899, by indictment charged with the murder of one C. A. Crump, and upon his trial on March 28, 1899, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The case is brought here on appeal.

The important undisputed facts in the case are, that shortly before day-break on the morning of January 8, 1899, the appellant, a gambler by profession, while in a state of sobriety, visited a colored prostitute,…