Dean v. State

The plaintiff in error, who will be referred to herein as the defendant, was convicted in the district court for Lancaster county of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. From the overruling of a motion for a new trial, the defendant prosecutes error and presents to this court a record of his conviction for review.

The evidence shows that on April 20, 1934, at about 12 o’clock, noon, the defendant Walter Dean, Sam Rivette and Aubrey Wray were traveling east on 0 street in Lincoln in a Studebaker automobile bearing a Texas license plate. At a point between…