State v. White

SEYMOUR, Justice.

Defendant appeals from judgment and sentence of the District Court of Bernalillo County pursuant to verdict of a jury finding defendant guilty of murder in the second degree.

The factual details are of little consequence for purposes of this decision. Briefly, they are: Defendant and one Aimee Bono met in Chicago in 1943. Aimee Bono was of Chinese ancestry and, by reason thereof, was in danger of deportation. For this or other reasons, defendant married her in 1947. They lived in various parts of the country before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico. In Santa Fe, the deceased…